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DANIELLE PADILLA Reporter @dcxpadilla

Imagine a student sitting hunched over, furiously typing on their laptop in a dimly lit bedroom littered with coffee cups, food wrappers, loose assignment sheets and textbooks scattered on the bed. This train wreck of a scene has unfortunately belonged to your average college student at some point in their life.

Sometimes the stresses of college life can negatively affect one’s health, which is why physical education should be a general education requirement at colleges. For many students, it is that time of the semester when school, work and personal life are colliding together more than cars on the 101 freeway on a rainy day.

A simple method students rarely use to handle stress is to take a break and exercise. According to the American Psychological Association, this break can be as little as 20 minutes.

While some students have the privilege of owning a gym membership, there is no need for an expensive monthly subscription.

Students simply need to enroll in one physical education class. The Pierce class catalog lists includes classes that teach the basics of yoga, karate, volleyball and golf skills – to name a few.

With a wide variety of classes that endorse physical activity, a majority

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The health and safety of all students, staff and faculty should be prioritized, and Pierce can acquire of students are not aware of how enrolling in these classes can reduce stress. This proposed physical education requirement could even benefit students new to the world of college academia. Especially in one’s first semesters at Pierce, the pressure of classes, essays, Canvas discussion boards, group projects and finding a parking spot in Parking Lot Seven can lead students to face the side effects of stress.

If students were mandated to take at least one physical education class, they have the opportunity to meet and bond with a group of colorful people.

General education classes have a funny way of putting unlikely friends together. This is because they have a mix of students that are not isolated by the major they chose.

Now, imagine getting this odd mix of people to do something as elementary as playing in a sport together. This is something almost reminiscent of a pickup basketball game at a park.

If physical education classes were a general education requirement, they would only benefit college students. These classes would be cheaper whan an outside gym membership, can help reduce stress, promote physical fitness and allow students to interact with their peers in a different classroom environment.

Making these courses mandatory will open students up to a healthier lifestyle that can help them in all aspects of their life.

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Though the significance of sustaining a healthy lifestyle cannot be undermined, it is not a college’s responsibility to mandate education around it.

Throughout one's educationelementary, middle and high school - educators provide the knowledge and tools necessary to function properly within society, including those relating to health and fitness.

After 12 years of school, young adults should already have the framework set in their minds about how to eat well and stay active. Any further lessons on health would take time and attention away from a student’s higher education.

More than one-third (36.5 percent) of adults in the United States are obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Evidently, obesity has become an inevitable problem in today’s America - an epidemic that appears impossible to conquer. Judging by the large portion of people who suffer from obesity today, we should take steps to diminish the effects, right?

Efforts to eradicate the problem are witnessable through visits to a doctor, advertisements that urge for the payment of gym memberships and mandatory assignments of physical education classes in elementary, middle and high school.

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Indeed, we want children to understand the significance of being active. We stress the long term health and success of the posterity to assist in the creation of capable leaders of society.

Ample time is provided for schools to implant the importance of daily physical activity. With 12 years of mandatory schooling comes 12 years of opportunity to make students aware of the consequences of an unhealthy lifestyle.

“Mandatory” is the word everyone should be aware of. A college education is a voluntary path one takes to specialize in a particular field and build a potential career.

The only classes that should ever be considered a general education requirement are the ones that are crucial to our individual success in the future.

As college students, we are here to begin our careers. Students are here to take the classes necessary to become the lawyers, doctors, engineers and leaders they want to become - all of which do not depend on exercise.

The issue has been stressed long enough for students at the college level to logically understand that exercise is something we must continue to indulge in to maintain healthy lifestyles.

Preliminary education has increased the awareness of obesity. Therefore, physical education in community college should not be a requirement.

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