Oh, and nowhere does the OP say “added to gym”–that is all speculation on the part of follow-up posts. My assumption had been that it was to be one more layer of fluff taking a new chunk out of the academic schedule of one of the poorest ranked countries in the Western world.
She said “added to the curriculum” which can really only mean added to PE.
And exactly why can it only mean that?
Because curriculum means part of a course/class and that’s the only class it would fit. I mean I guess you could stick it in World Relgions or something but it would be odd to expect students to change into shorts for that class.
I may be wrong but your assumption that it would replace some other academic schedule is the odd one, istm.
Or you could carve out part of the day once used for academic classes to fit it in.
That’s kind of weird. What other examples led you to that assumption?
My daughters’ high school offers Yoga as a unit in PE, in a major city high school. They both had positive experiences. The more athletic daughter loved it and continues with it today (they graduated 5 yrs ago) . The couch-potato, overweight, unathletic daughter loved it because it was a lot easier than team sports. Neither have any flexibility to speak of. You don’t need to touch your toes, btw. At the classes I’ve sat in on, many people couldn’t.
I might have preferred yoga to some of the PE units I had to take.
How about: “Yoga - It’s Not Square Dancing!”