Many people who have assessed the problems of secondary physical education agree that the multi activity curriculum contributes to the general lack a series of short- term units covering a wide variety of activities. However, can 5 to 10-day units provide sufficient in-depth learning to produce lasting outcome?
Improvement, achievement, and mastery are themes that are neither readily apparent in multi activity programs nor likely in programs that focus on keeping students busy, happy, and good.
There clearly are excellent high-school physical- education programs.
A main-theme curriculum is different from a multi activity curriculum. Use of the main-theme approach appears to be one of the ways in which high-school physical education can rescue itself from its current troubles.