PE lessons called ‘racist’

SCHOOL PE lessons are racist, according to a taxpayerfunded study. Teaching children to play football, rugby, cricket, netball and rounders favours “privileged” white students, the politically correct 20-page report claims.

The research says sports that have been taught in schools hark back to Britain’s colonial past and make “whiteness” the norm.

Its authors, who were given a grant of nearly $A18,000 to examine PE classes in England and Norway, say the emphasis in PE on fitness could even be imposing Western ideals of how people’s bodies should look.