Question

This policy ensures that all students in grades one to nine are physically active for at least thirty minutes each day through activities organized by the school (Alberta, 2020). Being active is being healthy. As was mentioned in the Dr. Christine Kennedy’s article schools have the potential to help children develop lifelong, healthy eating patterns and encourage physical activity; research supports school-based interventions to increase physical activity and decrease obesity (Kennedy, 2010).

Giving the kids an opportunity to have an active form of break, allows them to get the proper physical attention to the young body. This increase the overall mental and physical health. Kids between ages of 6 to 14 are in the most important period of they life, when the body and bones are forming. Therefore, this initiative that came to Alberta schools in 2005 was widely accepted and implemented by all the schools across the province.

come up with a discussion question. Something that a rival or someone who is against this policy would say.

Answer 1

The given case talks about a specific condition in which the children aged 6-14 are being provided with a specific method of learning so as to improve their capabilities. It talks about a method of providing specific intervals between the learning so as to improve the physical health of the students and thus to improve the mental health making provisions to lmprove the learning standards of the students.

Although the above method is seemingly good for the students, the following are the major drawbacks and questions to be answered in this regard

• Providing gaps in between may disturb the attentive nature of the students as they belong to such a group
• Some activities may attract them more and they may refuse to come back to normal study process
• Some students may lose apetite and this may affect the learning.
• There may be clashes in between and this may diaturb the normal routine

Thus, all these problems have to be stictly analysed before continuing with such a curriculum for the students.