Take It Outside

By Jennifer Pricola

At Brewer High School, near Bangor, Maine, physical education instructor Mark Savage and health teacher Cindy Porter-McLaughlin help gym-o-phobic students escape PE. The catch? Students trade calisthenics for canoeing, winter camping,...

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