Children are moving less. According to WHO, about eight out of ten schoolchildren in the world do not even reach the minimum recommended physical activity per day.
Pandemic added its own. Two years of distance education have not gone unnoticed. Earlier, experts concluded, that children need a real change. Now there is further evidence of this from Torrington, USA.
There, too, they faced the consequences of closing everything and anything. In the 2025 school year, fewer than one in four children passed the state physical fitness test. Before the pandemic, about one in three did well. Before that, the results weren't particularly impressive either. The state average is 49%.
Schools are starting to pay more attention health
According to Register Citizen, the district decided to rethink the approach. Next year's budget includes the salary of an athletic director. The person will be responsible for physical education in all schools in the district at once. Previously, the job was shared by two part-timers.
Director of Human Resources Kimberly Schulte said they want to find the reason for the low performance among high school students. The goal is not just to have an effective workout, but to build a complete program. The plan is to monitor the children's health throughout their schooling.
Behind this solution is a simple but not always obvious idea. A problem that has been accumulating for years cannot be solved by one-off measures.
At Palme School we think the same way - only about language. Progress in learning does not happen by itself. It takes a system, an attentive teacher and an understanding of what a child is failing to do. In our lessons, we monitor each student's progress - even in group lessons.
