Manassas Park Middle School in Virginia has a work out room with a DDR hooked up to it, TWO heavy duty mats, and 4 non-connected plastic mats along with I believe 3 Plasma TVs (around 37") and this weith ATV game where you have to push a metal bar to get it to steer.

This isn't a BIG school by any means.

Paying for DDR machines for $1500 schools vs. increasing teacher salaries... Wonder how they snuck that one into the budget vote?

On a related note: The children in that picture made of sausage.

Why couldnt they think of this while I was at Elementary School. I rather do Butterfly then do freakn ballroom dancing. Don't the teachers know that getting close to girls gives us cooties.

Recess doesn't work anymore, kids go outside and play with Yu-Gi-Oh cards instead of kickballs.

This is not a real child now is it?

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.

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.

haha, i tried talking my gym teacher into getting it. he thought it was an awsome idea, but he said that this year, they just couldn't fit it in with the budget.

but DDR pwns all :)

in england, teachers have banned tag. Freakin tag. if anybody has seen the works of david firth, (creator of salad fingers), there's one cartoon where people just "make humming sounds". This is the school for a new generation.

Fine, I'll allow this to happen on one condition: Kids will have to pay with their own quarters if they want to play DDR instead of crab soccer. And there will be no change machine, so they'll have to bring sacks of quarters to gym class.

Wii Sports would be better. Some people, like myself, hate DDR and find it to be extremely ghey. Also, what makes them think these fat kids are gonna want to play on it anyway? All some chubby's mom has to do is give the teacher a note and they can't make him do anything.

"My kids caught teh fat. He can't exercise without dying."

PYRAMID HEAD!!


TOO SOON! TOO SOON!

I'm all for putting DDR in schools but...

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.

So instead of having fat kids, we're going to be encouraging future weeaboos? I'm not sure which is worse.

@ Pyramid Head:

Sick sick sick, I just have one thing to ask you: What's the difference between Virginia Tech and the North Pole?

@HighVoltage
"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.

Video games for excercise whats next!

OH wow, look at the way the fat folds up around his wrist. I'm also digging the built-in elbow pads.

fuck that, our kids should be outsdie playing sports, not in the air conditioning hoping around like idiots. wtf is happening in this country? we are breeding pussies!

GET YOUR KID OUT SIDE AND THROW HIM A FOOTBALL, is it that tough?