Britain to force primary school children to run for 1 mile every day

Great idea. These children may live to be 200 if they make some wise choices like that. What great potential.

Newsflash! The morning mile is one among numerous programs in many American schools that get the kids walking and running before school every day with parent volunteers and lots of happy kids.

Flounder wrote:

Noel Ignatiev of Harvard wrote:

The alien, leftist overlords that currently control Britain and much of the West will have this shut down, especially if anything good comes of it (from whites that is). Hell, the people in charge are connected in many ways to those who help certain third world nations and peoples get away with all manner of cheating in sports as part of their eh, programs to redirect the minds of Westerners. Look at all the self-haters and blame YT first palefaces there are in the West.

Dude, you gotta take those meds every single day no matter how good you think you feel. When you self medicate by not taking them when you feel well you risk becoming suicidal.

Winner of thread! :)

A well known fact that people in the red conservative states more likely to be fat than the blue liberal ones....

track chick wrote:

When I was in high school running was compulsory and because the school was in a town, we did cross country but it was on roads, everyone did it, no exceptions, and you also weren't allowed to wear trousers/joggers even if it was snowing, you had to wear gym knickers (bun huggers).

I don't agree with the last bit because I think it put a lot of girls off sport actually, but I agree that it was good to have the entire school year running. I only remember there being one girl who couldn't do it. Everyone else managed. We also did 100m, 200m, 300m, 800m and 1500m. That was the longest. People kicked up a fuss about the 1500m though.

Same here (late 90s).

We had one girl campaign to be allowed shorts or trakkie bottoms. Everyone else bullied her for being a bit butch for having a problem with the knickers and she backed down. I quite liked them myself, more feminine than trousers. In our case they didn't put anyone off running as it was compulsory.

My gym teacher was Jeff Galloway's brother. He made us run a mile and do yoga at PE. This was over 30 years ago. So, doing yoga back then was pretty hippie. We all hated running and yoga because we just wanted to play street hockey or soccer. But I started running on my own at home and made the JV cross country team.

Coevett wrote:

The Mile WR back in British hands by 2040?

The British government has introduced plans to combat childhood obesity by making primary schools (ages 7 - 11) get all pupils to run for 15 minutes every day, on top of PE (gym) classes.

Restaurants, cafes and takeaway outlets will also be forced to display calorie counts.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/06/23/restaurants-told-reveal-calorie-counts-government-plans-halve/

the clean mile wr is in British hands (cram)