Very true. It definitely needs a major revamping. Health and fitness is important, especially in a country with a major obesity epidemic that's a growing public health crisis. But you can't keep doing things that aren't working and are causing other problems (bullying).
The problem is weight is always more diet than exercise Getting some exercise a few times a week isn't going to do kids much good if they're going home to obese parents and a house full of candy, sugary cereal, soda, TV dinners and fast food multiple times a week. Schools can't change that.
Best we can probably hope for is find a way to reduce the bullying (eliminate would be great, but you can never truly eliminate any problem behavior entirely), and find some combo of exercise training/education and nutrition education so that we see better long term outcomes after kids are out of high school and into adulthood and have control over their exercise routine and what they eat and drink.
I doubt we'll see anything done just in schools that produces results while kids are in schools at most are still at the mercy of what their parents provide them for breakfast, dinner and snacks and weekdays and all meals on weekends. But we could perhaps instill more knowledge and better habits about fitness and nutrition so they can be healthier after that and see more losing weight after graduation and make the "freshman 15" a thing of the past at least.
