According to a report in the NY Times, by the end of the decade, over 1,500 schools across the United States will offer Dance Dance Revolution as part of an athletic curriculum.
The West Virginia public school system is already on board, and committed to putting the game in 765 schools by next year. This move towards alternative physical education comes in response to many students who feel that team sports (such as basketball, kickball, and leaving your basement) were becoming too competitive.
While I'm all for anything that gets people up and off of the couch (do as I say, not as I do), I'm a bit bitter that the NES Power Pad never made its way into my school. If I were playing World Class Track Meet all throughout high school, I'd be totally swoll, right? Right!?
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11:50 AM on 04.30.2007
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Second Period: English
Third Period: PAAAAAAARTAY!
This isn't a BIG school by any means.
On a related note: The children in that picture made of sausage.
whatever happened to recess??
Taken away.
While it's good that they're responding to what kids actually enjoy doing to keep them physically active, why didn't they just go the whole nine yards and make PE nothing more than an arcade full of physical games.
Are you kidding me? Team sports being too competitive? What the hell else are they supposed to be? Video games can be just as competitive as real sports. And I love video games, don't get me wrong. But it's nice to go out and actually play baseball or football every once in a while. I hate that school system now.
Seriously, I think this is a great idea. I always hated sports as a kid ('cept for Dodgeball. I kicked complete and total ass in Dodgeball), but DDR gives kids a good alternative, I think.
I do DDR all the time, and honestly I think it's a great workout. I wish people thought outside of the box like this when I was still in school.
but DDR pwns all :)
Only the first part of that paragraph is true.
"My kids caught teh fat. He can't exercise without dying."
TOO SOON! TOO SOON!
...
What?
Team sports being too competitive? That's the biggest crock of bull I've ever heard in my life. Aren't they SUPPOSED to be competitive?
Whatever, kids need to play more sports. DDR, while fun and a good workout, simply doesn't teach the social and communicative skills learned when playing football or baseball.
@ Pyramid Head:
Sick sick sick, I just have one thing to ask you: What's the difference between Virginia Tech and the North Pole?
"Team sports being too competitive? What the hell else are they supposed to be?"
Fun?
competativeness often leads to kids taking the game way to seriously and effectivly end up killing all of the fun in the game. You can many times wind up with sore losers and arogant winners.
When it comes to taking games too seriosuly, i tend to see it less in video games and more in sports.
Sure gaming can get competative aswell, but from my personal experience from gaming with random poeple, gamers are much more easy to take a loss with a good laugh than getting pissed off... from my experience, the oppsite tends to be true for sports; athletes will either take a loss silent and with dignity, or at worst with pissed off anger... taking a loss with a laugh seems to be much more rare when compared to video games.
It was pretty cool.
You obviously haven't seen a guy explode over a Tekken loss before. It's ugly.
Didn't say no one ever throws a fit over loosing a video game... just that when compared to sports, it happens less often. Thaat's what it's been from my experience... poeple just seem to have a tendency to take Sports more seriously than games
GET YOUR KID OUT SIDE AND THROW HIM A FOOTBALL, is it that tough?