In class Blogging ending Points of Tipping Point

Overall I would like to bring awareness to how much effuses we put on acidemics on school age children and not so much of physical activity and health. Physical education classes are often being cut out of school cirriculumes to make time for more acidemics and so that students will be sure to pass standardized test. We can already see this having an effect on children ad obesity rates increase. I feel that to change this we need to lesson the effuses on standardized test and put more effuses on health and well being. Lets fact it if your body fails you in your childhood then what good will having extreme knowledge get you. I feel that we not only need to be more aware of the obesity problem, but also how much pressure is being placed on acidemic areas. I feel we are cutting children short of their capabilities (abstract thinking) when we cut out physical education time.

The chapter that I found most interesting was chapter four, which talked about the "broken window theroy". I found it interesting in that I could relate to the concept that when walking in a town and seeing a broken window or graffiti I do get the idea that this town has no control or no one cares about it. In addition to that I found it interesting in Gunn's study/ subway project that a simple consistent change can make a large difference. This shows me that all it takes is simple consistant changes to make a large change.

I will take alot from the Tipping Point manly that a single person cause a tipping point and therefore can cause change in today's society. I can apply this to my life as a up and coming teacher and a person in today's society in that I can create awarness to issues like health and as I said how physical eduction classes are somewhat getting cheated out. I can also cause a a ripply effect from steaching the students for then when they teach their children and so on.