Logic Breakdown

Passage Summary: Physical education is supposed to help people stay active as they age, but because most schools focus on competitive sports, kids who aren't great at them end up feeling unathletic and quit exercising altogether.

Reasoning: Schools focus on competitive sports, which alienates less competitive students and leads them to stop exercising, despite the goal of physical education being to foster lifelong healthy habits.

Analysis: In this 'Most Strongly Supported' task, we are looking for a statement that naturally follows from the provided facts. The stimulus sets up a clear tension: the stated goal of physical education is at odds with the current competitive methods used in schools. Because the competitive focus is actively discouraging a specific group of students from exercising, we can infer that the current approach is failing to meet its primary objective for those students. Look for an answer choice that suggests a change in focus or highlights this failure in achieving long-term health goals.

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Which one of the following is most strongly supported by the statements above, if they are true?

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Including noncompetitive activities follows naturally: if competition causes many less-competitive students to disengage and become less healthy, adding noncompetitive options supports the stated goal of fostering healthy, active lifestyles.
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