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California governor moves to pause student-fitness tests, citing bullying concerns

Governor Gavin Newsom has proposed halting physical fitness tests in California schools to study whether they encourage bullying and discrimination.

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Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed halting physical fitness tests in California schools to study whether they encourage bullying and discrimination.

Under the proposal, schools would drop physical fitness tests until at least 2024 to study whether the test promotes body shaming or gender identity discrimination. H.D. Palmer, spokesman for the California Department of Finance, said the state has received complaints that the test’s measurement of body mass index (BMI) is discriminatory to gender nonbinary students.

The test is currently administered to students in fifth, seventh and ninth grades. BMI screenings, calculated using height and weight, require students to select male or female.

During the suspension, the California Department of Education would consult with experts in fitness, adaptive physical education, gender identity and students with disabilities regarding “the purpose and administration of the physical performance test,” according to the proposal, which was released quietly inside the education budget bill for next year.

“Given the body of research on the impacts of bullying on transgender and special education students, during this period of suspension, it’s important to take this pause and determine whether the current test can be modified or whether a new assessment should be developed,” Palmer said on Monday, according to Politico.

Physical fitness tests have been encouraged by the federal government for decades, and California public schools have required the test since 1996.

In 2012, then-President Barack Obama tweaked the test to focus more on student health rather than athleticism, including running assessments, push-ups, curl-ups and “sit and reach” stretches.

About 60 percent of last year’s tested students in California fell in the “healthy fitness zone,” according to the latest California Department of Education data.

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Sen. Marsha Blackburn is taking 'toughest man alive' to State of the Union

Retired Navy SEAL David Goggins -- the only member of the U.S. Armed Forces to complete SEAL training, Army Ranger School and Air Force controller training -- is the definition of the "Great American Comeback," according to Tennessee Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn.

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Retired Navy SEAL David Goggins -- the only member of the U.S. Armed Forces to complete SEAL training, Army Ranger School and Air Force controller training -- is the definition of the "Great American Comeback," according to Tennessee Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn.

Goggins will be Blackburn's guest at President Trump's State of the Union address -- themed "The Great American Comeback" -- Tuesday evening.

Appearing on "Fox & Friends" with host Steve Doocy, Blackburn said that Goggins' life represented the "perfect comeback story as we talk about our nation's comeback story.'"

Goggins lost 106 pounds in less than three months in pursuit of a career in service to the nation. He said that he "found [himself]" in that process.

He decided to be a patriot because his country had given him the "great opportunity to become someone," after battling low self-esteem and demons stemming from his childhood.

"So, I had to first work on myself and...stop blaming everybody for my issues," he told Doocy.

"Honestly, Jenny Craig wasn't around for me, so basically I just ate very little and worked out like a madman. And, during that process is where I found myself," he explained.

"In our nation, people have the opportunity to dream big dreams and then to find a way to make those dreams come true and that's exactly what David has done," said Blackburn.

"He found the path that worked for him and that's what the American dream is all about," she concluded.

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Gavin Newsom and David Goggins, the state of America.

 

[Tour of Italy]

In other news, America baffled as to why it’s health care costs are so high.

It was sad to watch families give up on educating their kids and encouraging them to be healthy, and now the state is giving up too.

 

[Return of the Freaker]

Why can't they just have classes based on lifting, squats, pushups, and planking?

You can stay in place for all those exercises. No running needed.

In other news, America baffled as to why it’s health care costs are so high.

It was sad to watch families give up on educating their kids and encouraging them to be healthy, and now the state is giving up too.

Well of course. No point in trying when you can be #HealthyAtAnySize! Just look at all the healthy big boned gorls in Beauty Parlor. So fierce! Those doctors are just stuffy, old fashioned, and bigoted. What do you expect from people who literally force gender on babies and literally decide their lives based on genitals?

Besides, I hear gyms are breeding grounds for homosexuals the alt right! You dont want your kids to be recruited and become fags fascists, do you?!

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

Student fitness tests = broke
Student fatness tests = woke

 

[Captain Ahab]

What’s the point of even showing up to school if you can’t bully the re.tarded kids anymore?

On a more serious note, burying your head in sand and pretending the problem doesn’t exist won’t make it go away. Fat kids are fat whether you make them step on the scale and do the truffle shuffle or not. They’ll be bullied either way. Humans are apes. Apes live in stratified societies where the strong dominate the weak. Bullying is human nature.

If you want to actually help fat kids, help them lose weight and teach them to stand up for themselves. Because you may be able to shelter them while they’re are school, but, out there, there’s a rough places called real life where they’ll be torn to shreds.

 

[HeraldofNurgle]

Bullying will stop fairly quick if you remove the zero tolerance policy and teach the bullied kids how to box. The only reason a bully ever stops bulling is if you put them in their place and they learn it's more painful to fuck with you than it is not to.

There wasn't many fat kids at my school growing up cause they expected us to run a mile under 11 mins and you had to keep running the mile every day until you passed. I shudder to think how huge Cali kids must be.

 

[cactus]

Just fyi, in the voter information booklet, Newsom didn't have anything printed, probably because he knew he would win regardless. That right there made me not vote for him.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

In my experience, having grown up in California, what actually led to bullying in PE was team sports where the kids who weren't very good at that sport (or any sport) would get shit on for it (and now that I'm an adult, I have to laugh at the dumb kids who took fucking PE flag football seriously enough to get angry about it, but I digress).

If these people are that concerned about PE bullying and the physical fitness of kids, they'd offer more individualized options for exercise, but they don't, because buying enough weight equipment and treadmills for an entire PE class is way more expensive than handing over a basketball or volleyball to ten students.

This is something I happened to be thinking about recently. As a kid, I tended to opt out of team sports (except for kickball) because I didn’t want to hold back the team. I didn’t realize that most people don’t really care. But, there’s lots of people like me who don’t get into exercise/athletics because they don’t like competition or are afraid of letting their team down.

For people like that, encouraging alternatives is a good idea.

 

[Coldgrip]

I'm okay with this. If california wants to destroy itself it can go right ahead and do that.

 

[Ivan Shatov]

They should just test for diabetes and let the State go. Eventually the population will be replaced with a healthier breed.

 

[queue-anon]

This is something I happened to be thinking about recently. As a kid, I tended to opt out of team sports (except for kickball) because I didn’t want to hold back the team. I didn’t realize that most people don’t really care. But, there’s lots of people like me who don’t get into exercise/athletics because they don’t like competition or are afraid of letting their team down.

For people like that, encouraging alternatives is a good idea.

I was good at a couple of team sports, but the ones I wasn't good at I really hated, and it soured me on sports in general. Then, as an adult, I had to teach myself how to stay active because schools never help kids learn about the kind of exercise you're much more likely to stick with as an adult. I used to be good at basketball, for example, but I've played it maybe twice since I graduated high school.

 

[Atatata]

Funny enough, iirc the fitness tests were made up as such that if you were a tall fat older male you'd have to run longer and faster than the majority in order to pass.

Nobody got bullied for that shit though, regardless. Who the fuck gives a shit about PE?

 

[Vlinny-kun]

Powerful, brave, and woke, but how are you going to lead the revolution when you don't have the physical capabilities to do so? White cis men love the gym and can probably lift three time their body weight and run a mile in 4 minutes. How are you going to stop them with no formal training?

 

[vanilla_pepsi_head]

America is confusing. Student athletes are held in ridiculously high esteem and get free ride scholarships, while in some places kids are so fucking fat that they just want fitness tests cancelled. I don't get it. California seems like the type of place that would turn PE into an entire semester of faggotry studies diverse sex ed or some shit though so can't say I'm surprised.

There's fun ways to engage kids in competition without involving team sports though. See who can jump rope or hula hoop the longest, do long jump or high jump, that sort of thing. Or each individual kid can set their own goals, so the unfit ones could do something like trying to do a couple pull ups or push ups by the end of the semester and dedicate 15 minutes of the period to practice. If they don't have any equipment and just make the kids run laps they're going to swear off physical activity for the rest of their life but if you can make it at least somewhat fun they're more likely to do it outside school.

 

[HeraldofNurgle]

This is something I happened to be thinking about recently. As a kid, I tended to opt out of team sports (except for kickball) because I didn’t want to hold back the team. I didn’t realize that most people don’t really care. But, there’s lots of people like me who don’t get into exercise/athletics because they don’t like competition or are afraid of letting their team down.

For people like that, encouraging alternatives is a good idea.

This is why my school had a gigantic inflatable soccer ball and we would chase that damn thing around like hyenas going after a zebra. Nobody ever sat out for that. Everyone hated being forced to play an actual sport but they figured out that if they left random shit out we would somehow make a game out of it.

We'd get shit like everyone sitting on those flat scooter things and going after each other with foam bats. Wasn't a single kid that wasn't worn out by the end of that. It was pretty fun!

 

[Lone MacReady]

Can't wait for the US military to adopt this policy. I can already vouch for being forced to attend dieversity/sensitivity training in the military during King Nigger's time. You're only as strong as your weakest link, and Modern America seems desperate to gain weaknesses.

 

[Zero Day Defense]

California Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to pause physical education tests for students for three years due to concerns over bullying and the test discriminating against disabled and non-binary students. The move also comes after annual test results show a growing percentage of students scoring not healthy.

I'm pretty sure the bolded is the actual reason.

H.D. Palmer, spokesman for the Department of Finance, said the state has received complaints that the current examination’s measurement of body mass index is discriminatory to non-binary students. A measurement calculated from weight and height, BMI screenings require students to select “male” or “female,” he said.

But there's only two sexes, medically speaking. Maybe he would have fared better if he suggested that BMI screenings didn't account for the intersex or those with total androgen insensitivity instead of using people that are either having an identity crisis or want to be under the LGBTQ umbrella with the least amount of effort. Maybe he could have made an argument about BMI being excessively reductionist and an inaccurate measure of health, if only by itself.

I dunno, anything but talking about gender where sex is involved.

Hey, you look up to the people who decided to differentiate those terms from each other.

 

[niggerhater1488]

For California, this truly is a National Crisis. It should be halted forever because running and actually being healthy is racist and misogynistic for Fat people, Disabled people, Trans people, and Lazy people in general. As we all know, Exercise is a White man's tool for halting Progressive people from reaching their goals. i.e; Eating, Destroying their Cultur-I mean destroying the Patriarchy, Fat-phobia, and Racism in general. This should be California's top priority also; Because Gang Members, Pedophiles, Rapists, People shitting on the street,Drug addicts/Crackheads, are adding Culture and Diversity to a once White Devil's Home. Ban white people and praise Jews.

 

[MrJokerRager]

For my personal experience in California high school, they actively stopped you from playing with soccer balls during lunch time. The PE class was a joke that I opted out of because there was no team sports, it's was all walking on the track mostly. It's makes no difference as that state is a joke in these issues.

 

[I'm Not Racist Anymore]

2/3 of the people in my High School classes were overweight. Nobody got bullied during the fitness tests, if anything they brought people together because of how tough they were for some kids.

 

[It's HK-47]

"Our kids are getting too fat and they're being bullied for being fat. What do we do?"
"...Why don't we let them get more fat?"
"Brilliant."

For the love of God lol