Skateboarding for PE?!
Tuesday May 16, 2006
A grade school in Boulder, Colorado has actually introduced skateboarding as PE curriculum! MSNBC ran an article about the new skateboarding PE classes, and Live Science talks about the health benefits of a skateboarding gym class as well. It may seem bizarre, to try and actually teach skateboarding at school, but new programs like Skate Pass, an organization out of Boulder, CO that sells skateboarding programs for schools to use, will probably catch on in other areas as well.
What do you think about this new trend? Leave a comment below and say what you think!
Comments
AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s great! On the good side, with schools teaching it, skateboarding will become more socially accepted. Next thing you know, malls will accept skateboarding as a valid means of travel that allows people to visit more stores and spend more money! On the bad side, maybe the types of ‘personalities’ that make skateboarding what it is will pursue some other elite sport…
This park ROCKS!
I mean…THIS park rocks!
dude bring on the skatebosrding its so awsome!!!
wow i wish i lived der then ide go to school instead of being home ed. lmao but sadly i live in england. bu i wouldnt mind living there for the sake of sk8ing
wish my school would do that. i’m not even aloud to skateboard after hours or in the summer time while school is out.
this is troubling
the last thing skating needs is to be more mainstream
this is exceptional. http://www.eastgulllake.aminnesota.com
i think thats sutch a dope idea, i live on salt spring island bc and we have a skate park just down the road but still refuse the idea “skateboarding can’t be curricular” i say how is any other sport in P.e. different from skateboarding, skateboarding just encoureges independace. thanks i hope i can convince them happy skatboarding.
skateboarding as a P.E. chouse is the best idea EVER
How timely.Am attempting to build a skatepark in Salem, Ohio and this fits perfectly in with promoting the event.Metting with school superentendant this PM to promote the PE concept.Thank You for progressive thinking and publication of same.
William Hannay,Project Director,Salem Skateboard And BMX Assoc. Inc. Non- Profit
i think its a great i dea hopefully it comes down to san francisco.
Honestly, this is the last thing that needs to happen, skateboarding is what it is… don’t try and make it something its not