As a physician, Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., told Newsmax Friday he “couldn’t be happier” that President Donald Trump is reinstating the Presidential Fitness Test. He is a little curious, however, about how today’s students are going to perform the test’s shuttle-run component.
“You think about that shuttle run and you remember the shuttle run, we used [blackboard] erasers we would grab on each end,” Marshall said on “Wake Up America.” “What are the kids going to use today? I was sitting there wondering that. But President Eisenhower started this back in 1954, Kansas’ favorite son, Dwight David Eisenhower, 34th president of the United States. He started this program.”
To address “the widespread epidemic of declining health and physical fitness,” Trump announced a new executive order on Thursday reinstating the Presidential Fitness Test in public schools. The fitness challenge will reportedly be administered by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Former President Barack Obama abandoned the test in 2012 and replaced it with the FitnessGram assessment, which focused on improving personal health.
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