Some people feel that Schools do not teach children how to stay healthy anymore? To what extent do you agree or disagree.

Some people feel that Schools do not teach children how to stay healthy anymore? To what extent do you agree or disagree.

Education and health of children have always been top priority. Since the advent of 20^th century, appropriate focus has been laid on training children in academics and educating them about leading healthy lives. But as per some, the focus seems to be shifting as schools do not prioritize health education anymore, though there are some who feel otherwise.

The focus of educational institutions has gradually shifted to prioritizing academic excellence and finesse. To see this through, the faculties put whole hearted efforts into training students for better academic accomplishments. With the multitude of efforts being put into encouraging and preparing pupils for higher academic output, educational establishments are left with little time to teach young learners about leading healthy lives, for instance, several schools have shelved extracurricular activities from syllabus, and replaced them with academic discipline.

Moreover, although many schools still profess about ensuring comprehensive personality development of young learners, and such institutions heavily publicize various activities aimed at fostering healthy habits among children, much publicized talk about health education is merely a lip service, as the schools seem to be pursuing commercial goals, and they are least bothered about the overall development of the kids.

However, some people really feel that schools are still continuing with the mission of fostering healthy habits among the children, and even though the schools do not include any formal health programs in regular syllabus, the educational establishments regularly organize such workshops and activities that invite participation from established health practitioners and students. This in turn, inspires young learners to follow precedents of professionals, and learn about leading healthy lives.

To conclude, I personally feel schools seem to have lost the way in pursuit of better academic pursuits, and have ignored the need of teaching pupils about healthy lives.