{"language": "en", "segments": [{"text": " I did it, I did it, I did it, I did it.", "start": 16.38, "stop": 19.2, "id": 0}, {"text": " We won, we won, we won.", "start": 19.9, "stop": 21.96, "id": 1}, {"text": " They know up so fast, that before you know it, they're out of your hands.", "start": 23.08, "stop": 27.84, "id": 2}, {"text": " Goodbye dear, come right home after school now.", "start": 55.24, "stop": 57.92, "id": 3}, {"text": " Can I stop with [...]", "start": 58.18, "stop": 60.0, "id": 4}, {"text": " You're right, but home for supper.", "start": 60.28, "stop": 61.86, "id": 5}, {"text": " Oh Paolo, what time will you be home?", "start": 65.3, "stop": 70.22, "id": 6}, {"text": " Tonight, tennis today, goodbye.", "start": 70.46, "stop": 71.76, "id": 7}, {"text": " [...] back here.", "start": 78.76, "stop": 80.28, "id": 8}, {"text": " Don't fret", "start": 83.14, "stop": 89.0, "id": 9}, {"text": " dear, you're just growing up.", "start": 89.0, "stop": 90.52, "id": 10}, {"text": " Oh I wasn't fretting, just thinking.", "start": 90.74, "stop": 93.08, "id": 11}, {"text": " Now what time will you be home?", "start": 94.4, "stop": 95.7, "id": 12}, {"text": " Oh sex as usual.", "start": 96.14, "stop": 96.82, "id": 13}, {"text": " I don't have a thing to do after school.", "start": 98.5, "stop": 100.42, "id": 14}, {"text": " Just thinking, oh they're", "start": 101.52, "stop": 108.5, "id": 15}, {"text": " growing up so fast.", "start": 108.5, "stop": 110.74, "id": 16}, {"text": " It used to be they were mine all day long.", "start": 112.3, "stop": 115.76, "id": 17}, {"text": " But now school, it seems I hardly see them anymore.", "start": 117.34, "stop": 121.72, "id": 18}, {"text": " Still, when school is the right kind of a place, it's such a", "start": 122.98, "stop": 127.34, "id": 19}, {"text": " pleasure to watch them go.", "start": 127.34, "stop": 128.86, "id": 20}, {"text": " Well our school is the right kind of a place now, alright.", "start": 130.48, "stop": 133.56, "id": 21}, {"text": " And we know that our children are in good hands all day long.", "start": 134.9, "stop": 139.24, "id": 22}, {"text": " In the hands of people who understand them and know how to help them grow.", "start": 140.34, "stop": 143.52, "id": 23}, {"text": " Hi Miss Harris.", "start": 144.32, "stop": 145.14, "id": 24}, {"text": " Hi.", "start": 145.54, "stop": 146.04, "id": 25}, {"text": " Miss Thompson says we're going to learn hythems today.", "start": 146.92, "stop": 149.56, "id": 26}, {"text": " Will you be there?", "start": 149.66, "stop": 150.44, "id": 27}, {"text": " Oh yes children, I certainly will.", "start": 150.44, "stop": 152.3, "id": 28}, {"text": " You better hurry up now or you'll be late.", "start": 152.86, "stop": 154.32, "id": 29}, {"text": " Okay, bye.", "start": 154.98, "stop": 155.82, "id": 30}, {"text": " People with a purpose.", "start": 156.74, "stop": 159.4, "id": 31}, {"text": " That's what makes a school the right kind of a place.", "start": 160.52, "stop": 162.94, "id": 32}, {"text": " So that whether our children are reading or painting or learning about health,", "start": 163.76, "stop": 168.0, "id": 33}, {"text": " all their activities blend together into a single unified program.", "start": 168.46, "stop": 172.2, "id": 34}, {"text": " And we parents know that because of it, our children, all of our children, are", "start": 172.92, "stop": 178.28, "id": 35}, {"text": " getting a chance to grow and develop for effective living, now and in the future.", "start": 178.28, "stop": 182.98, "id": 36}, {"text": " But we haven't always understood how important physical", "start": 184.0, "stop": 186.5, "id": 37}, {"text": " education is in this program.", "start": 186.5, "stop": 188.24, "id": 38}, {"text": " And there was a time when we didn't understand that even the youngest children", "start": 189.3, "stop": 193.32, "id": 39}, {"text": " need help and guidance in their physical activity,", "start": 193.32, "stop": 195.9, "id": 40}, {"text": " just as they do in their other studies.", "start": 196.14, "stop": 198.14, "id": 41}, {"text": " Maybe we wouldn't understand it now if something hadn't happened five years ago.", "start": 199.04, "stop": 204.58, "id": 42}, {"text": " Something that began right in my own family when Paul was just ten years old.", "start": 204.96, "stop": 210.48, "id": 43}, {"text": " Bye mom.", "start": 211.06, "stop": 211.94, "id": 44}, {"text": " Dad.", "start": 212.88, "stop": 213.08, "id": 45}, {"text": " Paul?", "start": 216.58, "stop": 216.9, "id": 46}, {"text": " You've forgotten your shoes again.", "start": 217.92, "stop": 220.4, "id": 47}, {"text": " Okay.", "start": 221.92, "stop": 222.72, "id": 48}, {"text": " Have a nice day dear.", "start": 224.36, "stop": 225.48, "id": 49}, {"text": " Bye.", "start": 226.3, "stop": 226.74, "id": 50}, {"text": " [...]", "start": 233.56, "stop": 234.0, "id": 51}, {"text": " I don't know what's wrong with that boy.", "start": 229.46, "stop": 235.86, "id": 52}, {"text": " Now don't start worrying about Paul. He's coming along fine.", "start": 237.4, "stop": 240.06, "id": 53}, {"text": " No he isn't.", "start": 240.16, "stop": 240.76, "id": 54}, {"text": " He doesn't seem to take an interest in things.", "start": 241.74, "stop": 243.86, "id": 55}, {"text": " What things?", "start": 245.02, "stop": 245.72, "id": 56}, {"text": " Well you know, last night he asked me again to give him", "start": 246.94, "stop": 250.36, "id": 57}, {"text": " an excuse from Jim class at school.", "start": 250.36, "stop": 251.94, "id": 58}, {"text": " Did you?", "start": 252.58, "stop": 253.0, "id": 59}, {"text": " Well no I didn't. The doctor told me last week there's nothing wrong with him.", "start": 253.0, "stop": 257.08, "id": 60}, {"text": " Of course there isn't. You should see the army's gut.", "start": 257.38, "stop": 260.46, "id": 61}, {"text": " I was watching him Saturday morning pegging stones at a tin can.", "start": 260.82, "stop": 263.52, "id": 62}, {"text": " Yes, but by himself. That's no way for a growing boy. He needs...", "start": 263.74, "stop": 269.62, "id": 63}, {"text": " Well I don't know. Something's missing.", "start": 269.62, "stop": 271.5, "id": 64}, {"text": " Oh forget it Helen. Paul's still a child.", "start": 271.98, "stop": 274.02, "id": 65}, {"text": " You'll come along alright. He's got all the time in the world.", "start": 274.74, "stop": 278.38, "id": 66}, {"text": " I felt in my heart that my husband was wrong. Paul", "start": 281.36, "stop": 285.72, "id": 67}, {"text": " didn't have all the time in the world.", "start": 285.72, "stop": 287.56, "id": 68}, {"text": " He was growing so fast and yet he seemed to be turning into himself for", "start": 288.9, "stop": 293.58, "id": 69}, {"text": " satisfactions he should have been getting with others.", "start": 293.58, "stop": 296.14, "id": 70}, {"text": " Come on Paul you [...] can get here. Yeah straight come on.", "start": 303.78, "stop": 308.2, "id": 71}, {"text": " Come on Paul you You can get here. Yeah straight come on.", "start": 309.46, "stop": 325.56, "id": 72}, {"text": " Come on. Flip one hand. [...]", "start": 325.56, "stop": 328.06, "id": 73}, {"text": " You did it.", "start": 330.16, "stop": 332.34, "id": 74}, {"text": " I knew that a growing child needs to feel the thrills of success and the approval", "start": 333.58, "stop": 339.44, "id": 75}, {"text": " of other children his own age.", "start": 339.44, "stop": 341.24, "id": 76}, {"text": " And that Paul wasn't getting the chance.", "start": 341.98, "stop": 344.02, "id": 77}, {"text": " What's the matter Paul? Scared? Come on Paul what's the matter? No muscles?", "start": 366.02, "stop": 370.78, "id": 78}, {"text": " I'm just drawing out. What's the matter? Come on.", "start": 372.22, "stop": 375.32, "id": 79}, {"text": " I knew that every youngster needs adventure and the right kind of challenges.", "start": 378.12, "stop": 382.42, "id": 80}, {"text": " Paul wasn't finding them where he should.", "start": 383.1, "stop": 385.5, "id": 81}, {"text": " Let's go and reach. Let's go and reach. Let's go and reach. Let's go and", "start": 412.42, "stop": 418.3, "id": 82}, {"text": " reach. Let's go and reach.", "start": 418.3, "stop": 420.7, "id": 83}, {"text": " I knew that a growing child needs to", "start": 421.24, "stop": 428.24, "id": 84}, {"text": " learn how to handle himself but nobody was teaching Paul.", "start": 428.24, "stop": 432.16, "id": 85}, {"text": " He wasn't a happy child at all. I couldn't put my finger on what was wrong", "start": 433.02, "stop": 437.76, "id": 86}, {"text": " but I wasn't alone.", "start": 437.76, "stop": 439.52, "id": 87}, {"text": " There were a few people in our PTA who had noticed that something was lacking in", "start": 439.88, "stop": 444.12, "id": 88}, {"text": " our school and who had been trying to do something about it.", "start": 444.12, "stop": 447.46, "id": 89}, {"text": " But it seems that they were in the minority.", "start": 447.74, "stop": 449.42, "id": 90}, {"text": " Those physical education classes are too crowded. There's no organization.", "start": 451.16, "stop": 456.92, "id": 91}, {"text": " The teachers don't have any definite time to give instruction.", "start": 458.84, "stop": 462.46, "id": 92}, {"text": " [...] is neglected. I tell you those kids aren't getting physical education and", "start": 463.14, "stop": 469.8, "id": 93}, {"text": " they aren't getting it in high school either.", "start": 469.8, "stop": 471.46, "id": 94}, {"text": " [...] come on now. Those buildings are the best that money can buy.", "start": 471.74, "stop": 474.76, "id": 95}, {"text": " Sure but Henry walked past the elementary school every day like I do and watched", "start": 475.44, "stop": 479.6, "id": 96}, {"text": " most of those kids just standing there with nothing to do.", "start": 479.6, "stop": 482.46, "id": 97}, {"text": " You'll think different. What do you want them to", "start": 482.96, "stop": 484.76, "id": 98}, {"text": " do? Too young to do much of anything.", "start": 484.76, "stop": 486.9, "id": 99}, {"text": " Are they too young to learn how to play Mr. Taylor?", "start": 487.28, "stop": 490.1, "id": 100}, {"text": " Of course not. But you don't have to hire a physical education teacher for that.", "start": 490.74, "stop": 495.58, "id": 101}, {"text": " All the same Henry. It seems to me that physical education is more than play.", "start": 496.66, "stop": 502.14, "id": 102}, {"text": " Nonsense. I agree with Henry. Turn him loose in the schoolyard and", "start": 503.12, "stop": 506.04, "id": 103}, {"text": " let him go. That's all you have to do.", "start": 506.04, "stop": 507.54, "id": 104}, {"text": " Just turn him loose in the schoolyard and watch him go.", "start": 508.9, "stop": 514.54, "id": 105}, {"text": " Are they too young to learn how to play? But you don't have to hire a physical", "start": 514.76, "stop": 519.16, "id": 106}, {"text": " education teacher for that.", "start": 519.16, "stop": 520.76, "id": 107}, {"text": " Just turn him loose in the schoolyard and watch him go.", "start": 520.98, "stop": 523.02, "id": 108}, {"text": " Of course not. Of course not.", "start": 523.28, "stop": 525.8, "id": 109}, {"text": " We were closing the doors on an important part of our children's growth.", "start": 528.62, "stop": 533.96, "id": 110}, {"text": " You could see it in their faces, particularly on days when there is no", "start": 541.74, "stop": 546.54, "id": 111}, {"text": " playground to fall back upon.", "start": 546.54, "stop": 548.16, "id": 112}, {"text": " There just wasn't anything for them to look forward to, except a confused,", "start": 548.8, "stop": 553.3, "id": 113}, {"text": " frustrating half hour in the gymnasium.", "start": 553.62, "stop": 555.62, "id": 114}, {"text": " Something was bound to happen.", "start": 556.36, "stop": 557.84, "id": 115}, {"text": " Oh, it wasn't the teacher's fault. They were doing their best to develop well", "start": 564.32, "stop": 569.22, "id": 116}, {"text": "-rounded, healthy personalities.", "start": 569.22, "stop": 571.08, "id": 117}, {"text": " And in the classroom they had a program and definite goals in mind.", "start": 571.7, "stop": 575.46, "id": 118}, {"text": " But when it came to the teaching of physical education, the teachers had little", "start": 576.3, "stop": 580.32, "id": 119}, {"text": " to offer except the same old gains.", "start": 580.32, "stop": 582.68, "id": 120}, {"text": " Disorganized and without any continuity from one grade to the next.", "start": 583.36, "stop": 586.92, "id": 121}, {"text": " Our children would get a feeling of emptiness every time", "start": 587.7, "stop": 590.34, "id": 122}, {"text": " they went off to the gymnasium.", "start": 590.34, "stop": 591.86, "id": 123}, {"text": " That's the feeling Paul must have had on the day it happened.", "start": 594.88, "stop": 597.66, "id": 124}, {"text": " Emptiness and confusion about his own abilities to play.", "start": 598.54, "stop": 601.64, "id": 125}, {"text": " All right, now children, we're going to play a game of dodgeball.", "start": 605.04, "stop": 607.94, "id": 126}, {"text": " Oh, let's see.", "start": 608.44, "stop": 611.12, "id": 127}, {"text": " Bob, you'd be one captain and, um, Margaret, you'd be the other.", "start": 612.3, "stop": 616.26, "id": 128}, {"text": " So that's not what [...] talking about.", "start": 616.36, "stop": 618.02, "id": 129}, {"text": " [...] be right.", "start": 618.38, "stop": 619.6, "id": 130}, {"text": " All right, Bob.", "start": 619.9, "stop": 622.26, "id": 131}, {"text": " Look out, Paul, let me through.", "start": 623.3, "stop": 625.04, "id": 132}, {"text": " Yeah, you can, Drew. Get out of the way.", "start": 625.48, "stop": 627.52, "id": 133}, {"text": " [...]", "start": 628.82, "stop": 629.02, "id": 134}, {"text": " Come on, you fellas. Come on, Lord.", "start": 631.16, "stop": 633.78, "id": 135}, {"text": " [...] to have you up the stairs.", "start": 634.66, "stop": 636.1, "id": 136}, {"text": " [...]", "start": 639.2, "stop": 639.58, "id": 137}, {"text": " [...] you fellas.", "start": 640.26, "stop": 642.24, "id": 138}, {"text": " Come on, come on!", "start": 642.8, "stop": 644.42, "id": 139}, {"text": " Come on, [...]", "start": 644.9, "stop": 646.6, "id": 140}, {"text": " Come on!", "start": 647.04, "stop": 649.02, "id": 141}, {"text": " Come on!", "start": 663.84, "stop": 664.64, "id": 142}, {"text": " Come on, Paul, what's the matter?", "start": 664.96, "stop": 665.58, "id": 143}, {"text": " [...]", "start": 665.92, "stop": 666.14, "id": 144}, {"text": " Here, straight up.", "start": 666.58, "stop": 667.66, "id": 145}, {"text": " Come on, look what's there.", "start": 667.94, "stop": 669.06, "id": 146}, {"text": " Come on, Paul.", "start": 669.44, "stop": 672.52, "id": 147}, {"text": " Come on, Paul.", "start": 672.52, "stop": 673.32, "id": 148}, {"text": " Here you go.", "start": 673.78, "stop": 677.28, "id": 149}, {"text": " Get out of the way. Here you go.", "start": 677.28, "stop": 679.34, "id": 150}, {"text": " Get out of the way. Here you go.", "start": 679.68, "stop": 681.9, "id": 151}, {"text": " Get out of the way.", "start": 682.08, "stop": 682.92, "id": 152}, {"text": " It was a surprise", "start": 685.28, "stop": 692.18, "id": 153}, {"text": " to me because I know Paul isn't that kind of a boy.", "start": 692.18, "stop": 695.18, "id": 154}, {"text": " So that's why I thought it was best to ask you both to come in.", "start": 696.0, "stop": 698.88, "id": 155}, {"text": " Well, I've had a feeling that something was wrong, the way", "start": 699.7, "stop": 702.06, "id": 156}, {"text": " Paul has been going off by himself.", "start": 702.06, "stop": 703.72, "id": 157}, {"text": " And those shoes, always forgetting them.", "start": 703.98, "stop": 706.94, "id": 158}, {"text": " Paul isn't a stupid child.", "start": 707.74, "stop": 708.98, "id": 159}, {"text": " I know that, Mrs. Farrell.", "start": 709.46, "stop": 710.58, "id": 160}, {"text": " It isn't just Paul, is it, Mr. Keller?", "start": 711.1, "stop": 712.94, "id": 161}, {"text": " No. As a matter of fact, it's not.", "start": 714.02, "stop": 716.14, "id": 162}, {"text": " Then there must be another reason you ask to see us.", "start": 716.5, "stop": 718.86, "id": 163}, {"text": " There is, Mr. Farrell.", "start": 719.22, "stop": 720.26, "id": 164}, {"text": " You see, I too have felt that something was wrong, and I think I know what it is.", "start": 721.52, "stop": 726.62, "id": 165}, {"text": " And I believe this incident of Paul's shoes puts you folks in the position", "start": 727.48, "stop": 732.32, "id": 166}, {"text": " to help me set it right.", "start": 732.32, "stop": 733.92, "id": 167}, {"text": " Well, isn't it a matter of scheduling more physical education periods", "start": 734.96, "stop": 738.12, "id": 168}, {"text": " or something like that?", "start": 738.12, "stop": 739.64, "id": 169}, {"text": " Not quite.", "start": 740.24, "stop": 740.76, "id": 170}, {"text": " It's a matter of finding the right people to put a real physical", "start": 741.72, "stop": 745.8, "id": 171}, {"text": " education program into effect.", "start": 745.8, "stop": 747.7, "id": 172}, {"text": " Let me explain myself a little further.", "start": 749.04, "stop": 750.92, "id": 173}, {"text": " Teachers here are fine people.", "start": 751.82, "stop": 753.54, "id": 174}, {"text": " They're well-trained educators.", "start": 754.1, "stop": 755.52, "id": 175}, {"text": " But they haven't had special preparation for physical education.", "start": 755.94, "stop": 760.76, "id": 176}, {"text": " Like Frank Davis, for example, up at the high school.", "start": 762.0, "stop": 764.88, "id": 177}, {"text": " Well, can't he help out?", "start": 766.02, "stop": 767.36, "id": 178}, {"text": " Davis already has more than he can handle at the high school.", "start": 768.02, "stop": 770.92, "id": 179}, {"text": " Actually, he needs help too.", "start": 771.76, "stop": 773.1, "id": 180}, {"text": " Well, you know, Mr. Keller, we've talked about this often enough at PTA, but", "start": 774.02, "stop": 777.68, "id": 181}, {"text": " we've never gotten anywhere.", "start": 777.68, "stop": 779.66, "id": 182}, {"text": " May I offer you a suggestion?", "start": 780.22, "stop": 781.48, "id": 183}, {"text": " Perhaps you could open up this whole question again at the PTA.", "start": 782.5, "stop": 786.78, "id": 184}, {"text": " Because I have an idea when parents truly understand what physical education is", "start": 788.0, "stop": 794.26, "id": 185}, {"text": " really about, they'll see to it that the right kind of a program", "start": 794.26, "stop": 798.54, "id": 186}, {"text": " gets community support.", "start": 798.54, "stop": 800.2, "id": 187}, {"text": " Now, can I count on your help?", "start": 801.2, "stop": 802.44, "id": 188}, {"text": " I'll say you can.", "start": 803.26, "stop": 804.12, "id": 189}, {"text": " If there's one thing a man likes to see, it's his boy getting the right", "start": 804.8, "stop": 808.74, "id": 190}, {"text": " breaks when it comes to growing up.", "start": 808.74, "stop": 810.58, "id": 191}, {"text": " My husband was wonderful.", "start": 812.08, "stop": 814.12, "id": 192}, {"text": " He not only organized a special meeting of our PTA, but he talked up the subject", "start": 815.28, "stop": 819.98, "id": 193}, {"text": " whenever he could with other fathers.", "start": 819.98, "stop": 821.58, "id": 194}, {"text": " It was his idea to have Frank Davis, the high school physical education teacher,", "start": 822.62, "stop": 826.78, "id": 195}, {"text": " come in and give us a professional point of view about physical education.", "start": 827.18, "stop": 830.6, "id": 196}, {"text": " I could go on and on.", "start": 831.0, "stop": 832.22, "id": 197}, {"text": " But the point is, we don't have an adequate physical education program", "start": 832.44, "stop": 836.64, "id": 198}, {"text": " in any of our schools.", "start": 836.64, "stop": 838.46, "id": 199}, {"text": " We see a great many children coming to high school without even the", "start": 838.7, "stop": 842.1, "id": 200}, {"text": " basic physical skills.", "start": 842.1, "stop": 843.72, "id": 201}, {"text": " Running, jumping, throwing, and the like.", "start": 844.46, "stop": 846.18, "id": 202}, {"text": " And we can't do much to help them.", "start": 847.12, "stop": 849.2, "id": 203}, {"text": " The way we're set up now, they lack stamina, strength, endurance.", "start": 849.56, "stop": 853.9, "id": 204}, {"text": " They just can't do so many of the things they should be able to.", "start": 854.8, "stop": 858.32, "id": 205}, {"text": " All this has a deep effect on the way they grow.", "start": 859.32, "stop": 862.16, "id": 206}, {"text": " As so many communities have found out, if each child is to make the most of", "start": 863.14, "stop": 867.34, "id": 207}, {"text": " themselves, then all need direction and physical activity, and a program that's", "start": 867.34, "stop": 872.22, "id": 208}, {"text": " organized with every type of youngster in mind.", "start": 872.22, "stop": 874.88, "id": 209}, {"text": " You just can't turn children loose to play if you expect them to learn to work", "start": 875.58, "stop": 880.6, "id": 210}, {"text": " together, play by the rules, and build strong bodies.", "start": 880.6, "stop": 883.64, "id": 211}, {"text": " In the elementary school particularly, the classroom teachers shouldn't be", "start": 884.62, "stop": 889.84, "id": 212}, {"text": " expected to do all this by themselves.", "start": 889.84, "stop": 891.84, "id": 213}, {"text": " They need the counsel of a physical educator who is", "start": 892.02, "stop": 895.54, "id": 214}, {"text": " especially trained for the job.", "start": 895.54, "stop": 897.2, "id": 215}, {"text": " Someone who can supervise, instruct, help plan, and point up the role of physical", "start": 898.1, "stop": 903.18, "id": 216}, {"text": " education in the children's lives.", "start": 903.18, "stop": 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