[gardener]

In regard to school programs of socalled physical education there are two trends, one bad the other excellent. Some schools underfund or cut altogether anything demanding physical activities, sowing seeds for later ill health and poor fitness. That's bad. The excellent trend is emphasis on individual programs of fitness stressing weight work, running, walking, and so on. Growing up in Highland Park Texas in the 50s, I hated PE. It was all team sports, mirroring the football and other athletic teams. I got nothing out of it except shame at being chosen last. I was in my 60s before I discovered the joy of working out. I regard the old PE as really physical miseducation.