Is Park Slope Educating a Neighborhood of Fatties?

The Truffle Shuffle

Well Park Slope breeders, the state of New York is whispering under its breath that your kids are lard asses. The cause? Your neighborhood schools. According to a precious little tidbit in the New York Times, WNYC online SchoolBook blog, Park Slope schools are getting a big fat F for not providing the kiddies with the mandated 120 minutes of gym time a week. 

To me, Park Slope may be known the world round for many things: INSERT MANY THINGS HERE. I don't think out of shape kids should be one of them. Ever walk down 7th Avenue on a Friday night? It's crawling with all these floppy-haired preteens walking for hours in flannelled herds. And they don't eat. Seriously, I've never seen them with food in hand. At that age, back in Jersey, I would've been parked in front of a plate of cheese fries and gravy at the nearest diner (that's right, I admit it). And look at the parks around here! All jammed with kids swinging on shit. Hell, isn't there a turf war going on right now between the Latin Kings and the whitey parents for control of some park? These Slope kids have their asses outside. Like, a lot.

So why pick on Park Slope? According to the same article PS 107 starts every gym class by running a mile. WHAT?! When I was in gym class, we ran the mile once a marking period, and I always used the lamest excuses to get out of it. These kids are clearly hard core.  

PS 107 PTA Vice President, Mary Vine says the state requirement is "unrealistic."

How are we going to get to 120 minutes? It almost feels impossible, if we want to continue to have art and music and library and computer and all the other things that we have, which we don’t want to get rid of.

What do you think FIPS'ters?