Causin' Harm...

Does anyone other than myself wonder why the public school system, parents included, allowed the removal of some very important classes from the educational program? Let's start with physical education(also known to some as Gym). This is one of the primary reasons why the youth of today are fat! Lets not try to mask it by calling it obese...Its fat when your 10 year old child, niece, nephew can fit your clothes and you are a 5'7-5'11 woman and a full grown 6'0-6'5 man. Remove the fork from your childs hand and just stand firm...Sometimes you just have to say no. Physical activity was vital to the health and wellness of the youth. I know all of you pre-beyonce and lil' wayne consumers remember what it was like to leave your house at 10:00am and run and play all day and come back home when it was time for dinner exhausted, ready to bathe, eat and call it a night...ONLY TO GET UP AND DO IT AGAIN TOMORROW. Now kids are so lazy and just want to watch tv, eat , watch tv, talk on phone, text, and eat. They are okay with being fat....I DON'T GET IT! But there are several other factors that affect youth fat-ness (black folks love to make up words)... the fact that parents are too busy trying to climb the corporate ladder that fast food, junk food, carry-out(DMV) and the corner store snacks are unfortuante substitutes for a home cooked meal. I can still remember the days when my mother would be riding up the block from work (yes i grew up in a two-parent household and yes my mother worked) and i would run along side the car and ask "whats for dinner" and she had a menu prepared. The menu consisted of pork chops, man n cheese, baked beans, maybe a veggie, beverages or sometimes we had breakfast for dinner (that was common in my house) or we had fried chickecn rice and veggies. ---sidebar: some veggies i never cared for like carrots and mixed veggies which prompted hour long debates of why i wouldn't eat it before i was able to leave the table--- but the point i am making is that home cooked meals and physical activity kept us healthy active and most of all free from extra weight and health issues. I bet if you took a poll of the kids you come in contact with 99% of them don't get home cooked meals and if they do its not on a regular basis....How about the removal of basic science classes from the curriculum (sp?) People often wonder why I don't venture out in inclimate weather. My only answer is because people DON'T KNOW HOW TO DRIVE WHEN ITS DRY AND THESE ARE THE SAME PEOPLE OUT THERE WHEN ITS WET...and then it becomes clear to them. What makes people think that you can execute the same driving manuevers on soaking wet pavement that you can on dry ground...I DONT NEED THE INCONVENIENCE...--sidebar: And to all the brake riders out there...please take your foot off! If you fail to put gas in your car and it hits "E" you car will not go right?..same concept, if you take your foot off the gas pedal, gas will stop flowing, and your car will slow down. NO NEED TO BRAKE AND HOLD IT!---back to the lack of common scientific knowledge: look up hydroplane, skidding, loosing control, etc and this will expalin why you cant do 90 miles per hour, approaching stopped traffic only to try to brake (too hard in most cases) run into the back of someone and then look around like it aint ya fault...but until this is put back into schools and people began to learn why physics is so important while driving I WILL CONTINUE TO STAY IN DURING INCLIMATE WEATHER.We can't change because its more of them than there is us.... Us being defined as those who understand the above therefore act accordingly.