MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Children don’t often yell in excitement when they are let
into class, but as the doors opened to the upper level of the gym at South
Middle School here one recent Monday, the assembled students let out a chorus of
shrieks.
In they rushed, past the Ping-Pong table, past the balance beams and the
wrestling mats stacked unused. They sprinted past the ghosts of Gym Class Past
toward two TV sets looming over square plastic mats on the floor. In less than a
minute a dozen seventh graders were dancing in furiously kinetic union to the
thumps of a techno song called “Speed Over Beethoven.”
Bill Hines, a physical education teacher at the school for 27 years, shook
his head a little, smiled and said, “I’ll tell you one thing: they don’t run in
here like that for basketball.”
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