Should Sport be Compulsory? Reviews

I am not a keen sport fan but I do feel sport should be compulsory in conjunction with as sport science lesson so students lean about their bodies and healthy eating. I left school 3 years ago, i was lucky to attend a Sport School, which meant sport was compulsory for everyone throughout. We was lucky to have a gym, running track, ...  Read the complete review

I have never really majorly been into sports myself, and during my whole school life i have only ever had 1 lesson in sports a week. But it makes me think, maybe i had more lessons a week, i would have been more interested in it. I think that schools should have more sports lessons, because it encourages younger people to become fit and healthy. ...  Read the complete review

Surely no one can deny that sport is good for you? No matter how much some people may love or hate it, its still good for you. With the countries obsesity levels rising, more and more campaigns are arising about healthy eating in schools. I'll be the first to admit that this is needed. Too many times when I was at school did I see ...  Read the complete review

Should sport be compulsory? We are never too far away from the fact that the population of Britain are becoming a more unfit and heavier nation that we have ever been before. No-one seems to accept responsibility. There is an ad campaign on TV at the moment trying to educate parents to feed their children healthier and more ...  Read the complete review

I believe sport should be a compulsory part of every persons education, from first starting in pre-school to leaving at sixth form. Being fit and healthy should be important to everyone; but it's a shame we live in a society that neglects the importance of sport. Just look at the rise in obese people in our society, it's sad to hear ...  Read the complete review

The high profile advertisement campaign currently running on TVs and in magazines are serving as a timely reminder that for so many of us life has just got too easy. I am a teacher who has worked with children for many years and in the last two or three I have really noticed that children are getting fatter. Now, I don't necessarily ...  Read the complete review

When I was at school I hated physical education mostly as I was useless at it. I had an apathetic about improving instead I chose to skip round the hockey pitch with my hockey stick slung over my shoulder pretending to be one of the seven dwarfs singing "hi ho hi ho its off to work we go" . Instead of trying and losing in sports day I ...  Read the complete review

I fail to see quite how this subject is even up for discussion, because for me, sport should be one of the most important aspects in every child's life. The arguments against it fail to stand up against the benefits, particuarly the long term ones, and there is no doubt in my mind that sport should be compulsory. In a country where ...  Read the complete review

I was never in a sports team at school and did not enjoy PE lessons. The only PE lessons that I liked were the very few and far between ones in which we played basketball. I hated netball and hockey but unfortunately these were the only sports on offer for girls during most PE lessons while I was at school. I remember enjoying athletics and ...  Read the complete review

I'm not really sure whether sports should be compulsory in schools.. we've all been "ill" on the physical education lessons. When I was in school I very much disliked sport. I used to fret so much about it. This was manily down to the teacher that I had at the time. I truely believed that I would be ridiculed because I was not ...  Read the complete review

I can safely say that compulsory sports lessons in school have put me off sport for life and have left me with some lasting issues such as poor self confidence. For unpopular children, either in primary or secondary school, P.E. can be particularly humiliating. I'm a good example of this. There were 2 nerdy girls in our PE ...  Read the complete review

I'm glad I can review this as it's something I feel EXTREMELY strongly about. I will firstly and mainly list the reasons why I am against sport in schools. 1. This being the main and most important point. Education is compulsary however , every child has the right to sit there and NOT do their work as it will just mean they fail which ...  Read the complete review

YES! And up until the end of high school (year 12)(GCSE's) it was. Obesity is thought to be one of the biggest killers in the Western world (while famine(and disease) in the rest of the world! Basically in my high school we had to do P.E - physical education twice a week even if we didn't take PE as a subject. This is ...  Read the complete review

Sports should be. Children will love sports, well most will, it is better than sitting at home watching tv, playing games console or using the computer. Parks are not as full as say 20 years ago. Schools should be given money to buy equipment to do sports. kids should be forced to do sports because like good diet sports is good for ...  Read the complete review

There are two key points to this. The first is that children (and adults) need to do some kind of exercise. But there is also the point that we are lacking good athletes to compete at the highest level in a number of sports. When I was at School we were split into groups based on how good we were at Cross Country. At first I thought ...  Read the complete review

Of course sport should be compulsory from an early age but maybe more enphasis should be put on actual fitness rather than just sport itself. I would also question whether teachers are given the proper training to carry out their task. My own experience of sport in schools was a teacher getting two teams together and having a game of ...  Read the complete review

Sports should be compulsory for all kids. Olympic Games will give impetus to this idea. Making sports compulsory is a good idea. Most parents are too busy to check what their kids eat and some can’t find to cook a healthy meal for their child. Obesity is on the rise and one way to tackle is by making sports compulsory. Not ...  Read the complete review

When I was at school PE - physical education was a big part of schools national curriculm, and the school was focused on sport. Every year we would have sports days, and the children were split into different team and we would compete against the other team and at the end points were added up, and the team with the most points was the winner. We ...  Read the complete review

Sports should be compulsory. It is a way to keep fit and also it gives opportunity to explore physical ability. Some school age kids will hate sports, it is a very small number, vast majority will benefit from doing something physical rather than sitting in a classroom all day. In winter it could be difficult to motivate ...  Read the complete review

During my school days ( in country where I was born) sport had very important role in education, and it was always compulsory subject al the time from primary school until University days. I didn’t like it always, and wasn’t very happy to carry my sports kit to school, but since I did sport twice a week for almost 16 years, I have seen great ...  Read the complete review