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Physical Education : No Sweat For College Students Essay

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Physical Education: No Sweat for College Students As physical education (P.E.) is slowly weeding out of universities and colleges, students will be able to exhale, and not just while weightlifting. They will be able to exhale a breath of relief, since they will not have to stress about meeting a P.E. requirement. While some four-year colleges still make P.E. a requirement, the percentage is down from ninety-seven percent in 1920 to thirty-nine percent in 2012 (Beene). Physicians or personal trainers would probably side with the P.E. requisite due to more than seventy-four percent of men and sixty-four percent of women are considered overweight or obese in the United States (National Institutes of Health). On the other hand, healthy habits should start at a young age; not when they become adults and not in the college arena. Even I, as a “workout buff” and wife of a personal trainer, trust that a student should have the authority to make a choice, a student’s feelings should be taken into account, and a college’s priority should be academics. Being forced to work out and sweat to obtain your college degree isn’t what high school students think of when picturing their college future. They imagine themselves as adults that will be able to make their own choices or options. As “The College Board” webpage points out, it allows students to become more independent, and choose their own class schedule (College: What It’s All About and Why It Matters). If you oblige a student to

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