Physical Education of the Future

I was reading Malakye’s weekly newsletter when something caught my eye. There was a blurb on a program called Skate Pass—basically some kind of class which allowed skateboarding on school campuses. Intrigued, I did some Googling and found Skate Pass’s website and loved the idea. From what I understand, Skate Passis a skate curriculum which schools can buy and establish in their PE classes. Yes, you heard right—kids can skate, or learn to skate, at school. How cool is that? The schools can buy all the equipment they need which includes the boards, helmets and pads, plus three curriculum lesson plans (beginner, intermediate and advanced) and an instructional DVD. There’s even a longboard skate for the teacher! According to Malaykye, “California signed up and is now the 10th state in the country to approve the curriculum, making history for both skateboarding and the state.” I keep talking about skateboarding is going mainstream, I don’t think anything has shown it as much as this!