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Students earn PE credits by doing yard work for elderly and those with disabilities

Every school should do this for their community! The Alternative Learning Center in Iowa came up with a brilliant idea of helping their students and the community at the same time. The Alternative Learning Center is a school for junior and senior high students who are at risk of dropping out of school. To help students with their grades, the school offers them options from a pool of activities that will earn them credits in their physical education subject. What they are doing is legal since it is a part of the curriculum and they are only doing it during...

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