Only education reform can shift focus to sports

ONE SCHOOL after another has published their weekly schedule for the new semester, with "sport lessons" comprising quite a high percentage of the schedules. Guangming Daily comments:

"The sports teacher is ill today. Let's change the sports lesson to mathematics." For many in their 30s even 20s, this sentence must be one of the most frequently heard excuses in school. It was repeated so many times that the sports teacher was jokingly called "the most unhealthy teacher".

Sports lessons were often ignored from the 1990s to recently. For many, sports lessons "existed only on the schedule".