"Bringing sports-team competitiveness into it is a recipe for making those who start out being less physically accomplished hate the very idea of being active."

I agree with you 100% there!

It is too bad that public shools have mostly taken a "One size fits all" approach to education.

I know that schools don't have the money they really need to make education work as well as it could, but there must be ways to change things simply and cheaply enough, just by using one's gray matter.