Half of Turkey's secondary schools don't even have a gym

Answering a parliamentary question from main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) deputy Fethi Gürer, Education Minister İsmet Yılmaz stated that out of 6,857 secondary schools in Turkey, 6,280 have a physical education teacher. In other words, in 577 secondary schools there is no physical education teacher.
 
Worse, only 3,713 secondary schools have a gym. In other words, almost half of the schools in Turkey have no gym. 

This is a terrible situation. Especially in today's Turkey, where kids are grown in apartment buildings, depriving them of physical activity at school is not good for a country that wants to reach the "developed countries" category.  

Physical education classes are more important than we realize. They allow children to express themselves with action. Instead of enclosing them in a classroom, they are able to live, act and learn. Physical education may be the class that most prepares children for life, helping them learn to be humans, to be well-behaved, and to express themselves. 

As they are not acting on the directions of another person in the physical education class, they learn by living and doing, thus becoming humans and more well-socialized.  

Physical activities make people interact with others. In physical education classes you can make children love the environment, for example, and teach them how to form relationships with other people. They learn to respect others through the games they play. 

It also helps develop self-discipline. For example, obeying the rules of the game during physical education classes teaches children at a very young age to be ethical. Because children learn by experiencing, they can easily carry them to their daily lives. 

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