The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) recommends that children get sixty minutes of physical activity a day to prevent obesity. (CDC.com) So apart from students who are athletes, most kids in school will not get the physical activity they need in school, if they really want to do it then they need to carve out time after school. Middle school students are allowed only forty-five minutes of physical activity per day, and in North Carolina they only have their electives every other day. Even if they had it every day, it would still only be half of what they need when you take into account the time they have to change clothes before and after. Elementary students are those who do the most physical activity. They have at least thirty minutes every day during recess to do what they want and physical education class once a week. Our public school system must find a way to find just one hour a day to improve the health of the entire country, to prevent childhood