tion-equating punishment with exercise. From what I understood this had to do with things like, allowing students to pick teams, evaluating performance on things such as showing up properly attired rather than learning, and letting the best athletes in the class dominate. I interviewed Larry Becker, one of my high school football coaches and also PE teacher, to see what he thought were the major concerns and dilemmas facing Physical Education. I talked to him about going into Physical Education as my major because I want to be a coach. He said probably the biggest misconception is that people go into Physical Education to be a coach or just a PE teacher and they do not really realize that not too many schools are looking just primarily for PE teachers. He said that he majored in science because he knew that more than likely he was not going to just walk in somewhere and get a job as a PE teacher. He said it looks a lot better on your resume if you have something else as your major, and maybe minor in PE. He also talked about the poor facilities and budget cuts that Physical Education suffers from. He said it was not really an issue at my school, but at some schools the main portion of the money spent has to go to education purposes other than PE. Many parents have joined together and came up with many solutions facing PE today. Many parents have found out about a program called SPARK, which was, co-created by Sallis. Unlike classic PE in which the curriculum has practically been unchanged since the forties and fifties this new PE emphasizes working together in groups versus competing teams and promotes fitness, not sports skills. Everybody can appreciate that. The kids that are not athletically gifted or do not like the traditional sports can feel more involved and in return reap greater benefits. ...
