(VA) Governor Vetoes Physical Education Bill

[The Straight Story]

McDonnell vetoed a Senate bill 966 patroned by Sen. Ralph Northam (D-Norfolk) that would have required local school systems to provide 150 minutes of physical education per week for all students in elementary and middle schools by 2014.

The General Assembly passed the bill.

"It's really designed to combat an epidemic that we have in our Commonwealth and across the country, which is childhood obesity," Northam said during the General Assembly session this year. Northam, a pediatric neurologist, said health care costs to fight obesity cost the state $1.6 billion each year.

Local school districts opposed the bill, including the largest in the state, Fairfax County, where school officials argued that it would cost them millions to meet the mandate.

http://lakeridge.patch.com/articles/governor-vetoes-physical-education-bill-2

[angstlessk]

1. millions to exercise....BILLIONS if you don't....shortsightedness makes America #1

in shortsightedness!