Sports Videogame Student Enticements Banned

Thanks to the Miami Herald for their article discussing the banning a Florida school's plans to use sports-based videogames as a motivator for students taking physical education. According to the piece: "Fort Walton Beach High School wanted to use a PlayStation as part of a team sports course in the next school year as a way of motivating more students to take physical education", but "Superintendent Don Gaetz halted registration for the course Tuesday, calling it 'an idea whose time will never come.'" In a situation which sees "obesity rising among teens and that more than half of the state's high school students not participating in any physical activity at school last year", could attracting students with videogames actually be a valid approach?

Comments

Re:Dance Dance Revolution

[Lovebug2000]

Yeah, and someone else had the same great idea:
a bit of a google search turns up this.

Playstation?

[superpulpsicle]

If you're going to promote team sport, at least do it right.

Get a couple PCs on a LAN on the gym floor with wolfenstein enemy territory or something. Nothing like having your secret admirer take a bullet for you. The losers have to do 200 pushups... there you go.

Re:Heh.

[Lord_Dweomer]

Why punish those of us who can control our eating habits though? Why should I be unable to get candy and pop just because other people are fat? It's the same thing as the girl who sued McDonalds for getting her fat. Even if McDonalds hadn't existed, that girl would still be overweight because she either has a genetic predisposition for it, or because she has a problem with overeating.

Removing the candy and pop isn't the cure. Educating people how not to get fat is the cure.