{"id":1555,"date":"2009-06-22T09:44:25","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T13:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=1555"},"modified":"2009-06-22T09:44:25","modified_gmt":"2009-06-22T13:44:25","slug":"fighting-for-gym-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/06\/22\/fighting-for-gym-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting for gym class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1558 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/06\/dumbbells-and-jump-rope-thumb2295719.jpg\" alt=\"dumbbells-and-jump-rope-thumb2295719\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The value of physical education in public schools across America is being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/education\/2009-06-21-physical-education_N.htm\">scrutinized<\/a>, particularly in inner-cities like Chicago and Boston.\u00a0 Many educators, like <a href=\"http:\/\/efolio.bu.edu\/portfolio\/renderView.do?shareId=328\">John McCarthy<\/a> from the School of Education&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sed\/caec\/files\/sportinst.htm\">Institute for Athletic Coach Education<\/a>, are fighting to keep P.E. programs in public school districts because they claim these programs help fight childhood obesity and raise students&#8217; self-esteem.\u00a0 To hear more about the fight for gym class, please contact McCarthy at coaching@bu.edu or 617-353-0365.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The value of physical education in public schools across America is being scrutinized, particularly in inner-cities like Chicago and Boston.\u00a0 Many educators, like John McCarthy from the School of Education&#8217;s Institute for Athletic Coach Education, are fighting to keep P.E. programs in public school districts because they claim these programs help fight childhood obesity and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[17131,1321],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1555"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1561,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions\/1561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}