Physical Education in Saudi Arabia
- Physical education is instruction in the development and care of the body and it varied from simple exercises to course of study providing training in gymnastics, and the performance and management of athletic games.
- Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world, which bans women from physical education in schools.
- 2012 was the first year for Saudi Arabian women to participate in Olympics.
- Girls in Saudi Arabia are to be allowed to take part in school sports for the first time in the latest sign that the Islamic kingdom is inching forward on the contentious issue of women's rights.
- Female students in private girls' schools will be able to take part as long as they wear ‘decent clothing' and are supervised by female Saudi instructors within the tight regulations of the country's Ministry of Education.
- Physical education for girls at Saudi government schools has become the talk of the town in the kingdom, with many hailing it as a positive development and some slamming it as a threat to social values.
- In Saudi Arabia, it would cost men 300 riyals ($80) per month to go to gym. But it would cost my women about 1000 riyals ($266).
compared to the USA Physical education and what saudi arabia should do in your opinion to solve this lack.