Exercise Students for Better Academic Scores?

According to new research, exercise may have a beneficial effect on test scores. This is going to encourage more districts to re-implement their physical education programs, which were abandoned after the federal No Child Left Behind dictate. Since the school day remains the same and core academic subjects can't be touched, and research shows that foreign languages are needed and so they can't be touched, the question is, what will be cut next? School districts no longer offer extensive shop or wood-working programs. They don't offer many electives. How about music? I bet research shows that is good for test scores too. How about cutting business? It's evil anyways. I bet that is where the cut is- I'm putting my money on that right now.

The whole time, as districts re-shuffle curriculum, rebuild class schedules, move teachers around- the test scores are still the same as they were. That means a lot of effort, time, and money is going into nothing.

Okay, why am I running on like this? Once the federal government gets involved with things, life does not improve. Getting the federal government has resulted in increased costs, increased bureaucracy- but no increases in test scores. If government is not the solution to problems, perhaps it is the problem? What was the world like 100 years ago? Do any of my older readers know how schools were run then? Was it a vast bureaucracy, involving national, state, and local money? Was it funded by property taxes, sales taxes, and national income taxes?

How about 200 years ago? When our founding fathers were around, how were they schooled? Our education system is broken, and increasingly so, because the government gets more and more involved in it.