Have you ever met someone in school who is particularly tubby? Or maybe someone who is introverted and keeps to himself? Or maybe someone whose life seems to revolve around work, work and work? There is a solution to all of their problems, and the answer is physical education and games. Physical education and games should very much be compulsory in school, to strike a finer balance between work and play.
As the saying goes, “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy”. We all know that students experience stress, be it from the plethora of work given everyday, or the expectations from parents and teachers. Physical education and games help to provide a form of relaxation for the students, and help them to relief their stress. Physical activities like running allow the student to leave the enclosed boundaries of the classroom and enjoy themselves without worrying about any work, while games help to brighten up school life, as the games provide much fun for the students, and like physical activities, let the students relax and destress. Who can deny that physical education and games provide so much fun and relaxation?
Other than a form of relaxation, physical activities also help improve the physical fitness of students. Every year, students have to take the NAPFA test. Many students dread the test, as most of them do not regularly exercise, and thus do badly in the fitness test. Therefore, physical education helps improve and train the fitness of students, so that they will do better in these fitness tests. Other than this, physical education and games also encourage students to have a healthier lifestyle, and help promote exercise and active activity. We all know the health benefits of regular exercise and physical education help encourage students to exercise and in turn, adopt better and healthier lifestyle habits.
However, nothing is perfect in this world, and no doubt, physical education and games are not without their possible problems. Students constantly suffer from injuries due to sports, and common injuries include torn ligaments, sprained ankle, abrasions and blisters. These injuries regularly plague sportsmen, but students may also suffer from these injuries during physical education. Having injuries also disrupt and affect the student’s studying, and result in the student scoring lower in tests and examinations. These problems are all present and some might see these as reasons not to engage in physical activity, but I beg to differ. Injuries can be prevented by following proper precautions and instructions from the teacher or instructor in charge. For example, warming up is an integral part of physical activity, but many people neglect it, and in the end, suffer from injuries that could have been prevented if they had done proper warm up. Therefore, although injuries cannot be entirely prevented, they can be reduced significantly if students follow proper safety and exercise precautions and instructions, thus there is no excuse for students not to exercise.
Someone once said, “If the United Nations played soccer with each other, the world would be peaceful”. This just goes to show how sports and physical activities can help bond people together, and help otherwise introverted students to open up to others. This, alongside the abovementioned advantages, just goes to show that physical education and games should very much be made compulsory in school, for students to do something else other than study all day long.
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