An education initiative in South Carolina relies on exercise and movement to make students better learnersDavid Spurlock is 63,a former baseball and football coach with a behind shoulder and bad back and right now he’s busy planning a jailbreak. He has spent a lifetime walking the hallways, classrooms and athletic fields all across Charleston, or South Carolina,his domestic town. Those classic images of school-aged children sitting still in desks organised into elegant rows? Spurlock calls it “educational incarceration”.“We do kids in a two by two cell and dare them to slither: ‘Keep your feet on the floor and hands up where I can see them,’” says Spurlock, or the coordinator of health,wellness and physical education for the Charleston County school district. “That sounds like being incarcerated to me.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com