Community Intervention

Throughout the community and environment this intervention seeks to change the school environment and structure by changing the curriculum and how kids learn. Part of the change that is suggested is to have active class rooms where part of the learning involves active participation (SHAPE America, 2015). This not not a strength or a weakness necessarily as it is just making a change. But, it could become a weakness especially if including physical activity in the classroom occurs to the detriment of other subjects. Since the implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act, many schools are hesitant to enforce physical education requirements especially, if it interferes with or takes time away from other core subjects (Kim, 2012). With the reduced …show more content…
If schools are required to be open longer and accessible to a larger number of individuals this could lead to an increase in costs of maintenance and staffing. It was found in a report by SHAPE America that on average elementary schools get 460 dollars, middle schools get 900 dollars, and high schools get 1,370 dollars to spend on physical education (2016). This is not enough funding to bring in community involvement so funding would have to come from somewhere else. While there are other funding sources as outlined previously, it is questionable if this would be enough to cover the additional costs or if communities need to subsidize it. This is where structural discrimination could take place especially in areas of lower socio-economic status (SES). If communities were meant to provide the subsidizes needed to maintain this program for the community, it would be very challenging if not possible for some of these areas to provide sufficient funds to operate for the entire community. It would lead to wealthy areas being able to pay for the extra time spent at schools and their physical activity centers. However, if there are sufficient grants to be dispersed equally to all those schools in need, this would be a wonderful addition to communities especially in low SES neighborhoods where …show more content…
Active Schools intervention seeks to bring the CDC’s recommended daily dose of physical activity for youth, which is 60 minutes a day, into schools through activity learning, physical education, and extracurricular activities (Let 's Move! Active Schools, 2015). This program seeks to improve upon the intrapersonal, interpersonal, and environmental levels of physical activity as it pertains to children but fails to involve the macro level during its implementation. With lofty goals of reducing obesity greatly by 2030, this program needs to be mandatory for all schools in America otherwise it is completely voluntary for schools to enroll, implement, and follow through with the program. This greatly reduces the value of this program by not including possibly some of the schools that may need it the most. It is impossible to tell of its current effects on the schools because no data has been collected as to the effect at each individual school which should be collected to determine the efficacy of this program at the level of each school and as a whole. It is possible that the schools that have the worst obesity problems are not even part of this program or even aware of this program. If this is the case, then it is impossible to meet the goals set by this program because the largest contributors to the obesity epidemic may not be taking part in the solution set forward by this intervention. This intervention, while it does address several levels of the