It is often known that there is a debate about the choice that sport should be a compulsory subject at school or not: there are pros and cons.
Before I’d like to describe the two parts we are talking about: the first one believe that children should practice sport at school because it is important for the well growth of every kind of person, in fact sport helps us to stay healthy, and it decreases a lot of illness like diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular and others; in the opposite side we have who is not agree about having sport as a compulsory subject and they would prefer that children only study academic subjects because they argue that at school you have to learn knowledges and improve your brain skills and they think there are better places to do activities like sports.
In my humble opinion, gym, physical exercise, games or in general activities nearest sport are important also to create solid relationships with very important values as friendship and respect; however it could be a space where some child could be felt in a wrong way, because some dynamics could be created like toxic competition, or judging about the physical aspect.
I don’t want to judge the second group that I have described, but I think that someone is more lucky than others, and there a lot of different situations in the same society and therefore also in the same schools and classes: in fact in my experience I saw a lot of families which haven’t the opportunity to take their children to do some sports for many reasons, like critical financial situation, ignorance, absence of interest.
To sum up, for me it is important practice sport at school, but only if there are very sensational person to guide that activities.