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Children with Disabilities May Not Get Enough Exercise in School

In this day and age of raging rates of childhood obesity, a study done in Hong Kong found that children with disabilities are especially vulnerable when it comes to not getting enough exercise at school, Reuters reports. Children with severe intellectual disabilities had the least amount of physical exercise. While I can’t speak to a school’s reasoning for ignoring handicapped children’s physical exercise, I can say that this report is sad because there are exercises that...