Mandatory Daily PE: The School Reform Dividing Parents

Daily PE class — the policy lit up parent group chats nationwide. Supporters see it as overdue response to a child health crisis. Critics see another mandate crammed into an unreformed exam system.

The real question

The issue is not PE hours. It is the evaluation system. Until we design an assessment model where physical health matters as much as math scores, adding PE is just rearranging deck chairs.