Schools Nationwide to Exercise Continuously for 10 Hours

When my old church used to do this with prayer, they called it a "chain". I like this one better.

Students at more than 350 schools across the country will be working up quite a sweat tomorrow. They will be exercising for 10 hours straight.

But not all at once. In a unique attempt to fight childhood obesity and cuts being made to school physical education programs, elementary, middle, and high schools from New York to Hawaii and Alaska have signed on to a newfangled "fitness relay" event: Each school will have students exercise during a prearranged 15-minute time slot, beginning at 8 a.m. Standard Time. As each short exercise period ends, another school in a different location will pick up where the last school left off, and the pattern will continue for 10 hours, until 3 p.m. Pacific Standard Time. It's being called the first Exercise United States Day.

The ambitious project is the brainchild of Len Saunders, a physical education instructor in New Jersey and an expert in child health and nutrition. He says that although the concept is "a little gimmicky," his hope is that it will jump-start a trend among young people to adopt regular exercising habits.

"I'm trying to find new ways to motivate kids to exercise, because right now they don't respond to working out on their own," he says.

Wanna bet that somehow the wingers will find a way to morph this into more of that "indoctrination" bullshit?