Episode 34: The Fitness Gram: Students with Eating Disorders
Description
Join Dr. Ed and Liz as they discuss the potential harms of Physical Fitness Tests in American schools. Learn the history of the fitness test, as well as a harm/benefit analysis of weighing children in school as part of the ‘body composition’ portion of the test. All that and more on this episode of Ed on Ed.
RESOURCES:
The Texas Education Agency’s Info about Fitnessgram
https://tea.texas.gov/texas-schools/health-safety-discipline/physical-fitness-assessment-initiative
History about the PFT (Vox): https://www.vox.com/2015/4/24/8489501/presidential-fitness-test
Further info: https://www.wellandgood.com/10-things-you-never-knew-about-the-presidents-physical-fitness-challenge/
How the test is entered online:
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The Cooper Institute’s Info about the body composition info:
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