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[Hock]

"More than two-thirds of Texas schoolchildren flunked the state's physical fitness test this year, a troubling trend that doctors worry could get worse with the Legislature loosening the requirements for high school gym class..."

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7089677.html

[JimH]

Fits with what the Military has been saying ,that 30-45 % of American Teens are too Over weight to pass a Military entry physical.

The more they sit on their butts, play finger exercise games,stuff their faces with crap, drink soda and the less they get a minimal amount of Gym at school the worse we grow as a society.

If we have 1/3 of the young men and women unable to pass the entry into the military how will we field the various Police agencies,no less Fire Departments and Emergency responders?