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Video games are a terrible alternative to exercise

[dropcap]B[/dropcap]eginning next August, Norway’s Garnes High School will be offering students gaming classes in place of gym class, including only 90 minutes of exercise optimized for their favourite game. This is not the first time a school has made this decision, as other schools in Norway and in Sweden also offer eSports classes. However, this decision shows an unsettling shift away from the obvious purpose of gym class: exercise. One thing can not be denied — eSports are a large, growing industry expected to be worth about $2 billion dollars by 2018. If schools mean to prepare our young people…

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