Skateboarding Joins the Curriculum
We wrote a blog on something along these lines a few months back, where an American teacher was organising after-school skateboarding lessons and clubs. But now it’s being taken one step further, with some schools actually implementing skateboarding as part of the P.E curriculum.
Richard Cendali at Douglass Elementary School in Colorado learnt to skate recently at the age of 60, and decided he was going to pass the skill on. The students pad up, and learn how to do grabs and jumps, turns and basic skateboarding in the school gym during P.E lessons.
The schools are finding it’s the perfect way for kids to actually get enthused with their lessons, getting exercise without even realising it, and most of the kids are in seventh heaven. There’ll probably be a years lag or so, before the UK catches on… but it’s bound to happen sooner or later, if it hasn’t already. As we’ve said before on this blog, it’s hard to decide whether mainstreaming the sport is a good or bad thing, but skateboarding should probably be happy for any kind of healthy publicity, so for the moment let’s give this educational twist the benefit of the doubt.
