Persuasive Speech on the need for PE classes in schools

1. PHYSICAL EDUCATION IN
SCHOOLS
Jacob Burroughs

2. Decrease in PE in Schools
 Less than half of high school students
have PE weekly
 Amount of weekly PE classes has
decreased every year since 2005
 Only 29% of high school students
attend PE daily

3. Benefits of PE
 Helps build and maintain bone and
muscles
 Helps reduce risk of developing obesity
 Reduces feelings of depression
 May help students academic
performance

4. Long-Term Consequences
 Increased rate of diabetes, high-blood
pressure, and other conditions
 Increased rate of dying prematurely
from:
 Heart disease
 Colon cancer
 Diabetes

5. Recommendations
 CDC recommends that people ages 6-
17 get 60 minutes of exercise per day
 Schools should require PE for all
students
 PE should be taught only by qualified
professionals

6. CONCLUSIONS
 Schools need to promote and teach kids about PE
 Just like other classes, students won’t know the significance of PE unless
they are taught
 PE classes need to be mandatory and have consequences for not
attending
 PE should be taught by qualified professionals.
 You wouldn’t want a math teacher to be teaching a history class

7. REFERENCES
http://www.cdc.gov/healthyschools/physicalactivity/facts.htm