Physical Education for Public Schools Program
In the fall of 2008, in partnership with several Harlem public schools, we will begin running day-time gym programs at the newly opened SL Green StreetSquash Center. This new initiative, the P.E. For Public Schools Program, will enable StreetSquash to extend our services to an even greater number of under served children and will help to address a major problem faced by most Harlem public schools: woefully inadequate physical education resources that leave their students with little to no organized physical activity. In addition, the P.E. for Public Schools Program will increase accessibility to squash, a sport which has traditionally been both foreign to and out of reach for most low-income residents of New York City.
The P.E. for Public Schools Program will run Monday through Friday with classes held during the school day. With 30 students in each class, we will have the capacity to serve 150 children each program day. The school year will be split into 2 sessions of one semester each, so that throughout the course of the year, 1,500 Harlem schoolchildren will participate in the program.