Manitoba
As part of a push to encourage healthy lifestyles for young people, the
Education Minister Peter Bjornson says the new requirement will take effect in September 2008.
He says students will be able to earn the required phys-ed or health credits either in class or through outside activities such as intramural and inter-school sports or community-based sports.
They will be encouraged to find activities suited to their interests and abilities.
The addition to the curriculum is one of the government's responses to an all-party committee's report on healthy kids released in 2005.
Bjornson made the announcement Tuesday at a
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