Week 12 Post 3
It was interesting to learn about former President Kennedy's response to a small fraction of the population doing poorly on fitness tests. Kennedy recognized the early signs of declining health among the youth, and immediately took effective action. His plan was highly successful. There are slim to no effective policy changes to help the upcoming generation survive and resist chronic illness. The efforts to involve the White House served as a rallying cry to the rest of the nation encouraging the value and joy found in exercise. "The Great Diseases" course sounded like something that myself and my peers would be greatly interested. Not only would it be more enriching than the current Future Ready program, but it would leave the student body with skills that they could apply and changes that they could make; as well as, the reasons to make those changes. DMPS is far from this level of progressive health literacy programs but as we start to model new curriculum at the midd...