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THE PITFALLS OF 'MORE, YOUNGER' MINDSET Why Starting Kids Too Early and Pushing Them Too Hard Can Backfire in Youth Sports

Better Coaching

Parents and coaches, bombarded with stories of children being offered collegiate scholarships in middle school or making national-level teams at age ten, feel an impetus to accelerate their own childrens development. This underscores the futility of making high-stakes decisions about a childs athletic future in elementary school.

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Should Physical Education Be Required?

PLT4M

It empowers elementary school, middle school, and high school students to build up a wide variety of tools to live healthy lifestyles. ” As a result of the varying requirements, many elementary school physical education programs only meet once a week throughout the school year.

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White Toxic Masculinity: Written For White Males by White Males

Slow Chat PE

I am an openly white male (if you didn’t laugh at that you probably want to stop reading now) who grew up in a segregated white middle class neighborhood raised by two teachers. My elementary school was 90 something percent white. My middle and high school years were much more diverse although white was still the majority.

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