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Drs Lapp

Mr. Perry

Dr. Lapp

Wr. Perry

Yes, Iheve, Doc. About the biggest change since I

have been tn physicel educetion work seers to be on
the pert of the perent. Twelve to fifteen yerrs ego
one often heerd parents sey, "My boy gets ell the
exercise he needs doing rork eround hore and pleying
with the nefghborhood childrens" Especielly res this
true in the small town high schools where I wes work-
tng et thet time. Some went so fer as to say thet
they sent their children to school to "leern", not to
veste time pleying. While now most parents think that
physical education is » necessery pert of the child's
growing ups That ss he grows, his physical and rental
developrent @o hend in hand. They reeslize that to
"learn" those things thet reke e hepny, useful citizen,
they need to learn about health, §xercise, recreation,
and so forth. Another chenge hes taken plece in the
methods of teeching physicel educetion. From a sore-
whet nesrov, too forrel, unbélanced, "I speak end you
jump" progrem, a ruch broeder, better belenced and
coordineted progrer hes evolved. Maw a student gets
the good out of the olc program, nerely body develop-=
ment, end elso benefits fror the new idees and rethods
of developing leedership, follovrership and cooperetion
of our present dey physical educetion progremrs

_ Ded, Siu telked ebout the old "I speek end you jump"

syster of physicel educetion which wes used to denote
the formal method of gyrnesiur class tefching. Did
you change your rethod of teaching end throw over all
the ectivities used under the formel system?

I changed sore of ry rethods end relaxed on the dis-
cipline somewhat. Horever, I do expect the pupils to
do es they are told but more leersy is given on how
things are done end rore freedom is given for individ-
uel initietive. It did not seem reasonable to me to

go the entire wey and elirinete #11 the old sctivities.
I felt that there were developrenteal elerents in being
sble to chin on the high ber end to do dips om the
perallel bers thet just is not resched in the pley
program. One does not build up shoulder girdle strength
pleying gemes or even by working on the farr es sore

of wy boys dos

Thet is interesting, but do you really believe thet

one ought to be eble to swing on the high ber with erse?
You know in modern lifé we do not swing from frees

end throw spesrs or drew heevy bows like our errilier
antecedents did. About the only err strength re need

is to be sble to hang of ta © steering wheel.

Yom#are wrong, Doc. It seers to me thet we should
heve strength enough to meet the ordinery erergencies
in life and still herve © reserve to enable us to crrry
on. Suprnose this cer tipped over, a Little extre
shoulder girdle end err strength right allor you toa
get out from under the st®ering wheel and escape from