Advocacy Statement |
ICHPER•SD honors the right of every child and adolescent to a standard of physical, mental, spiritual, moral, and social development essential to engage purposefully in life’s functions.† Further, ICHPER•SD endorses entitlement of this right for every child and adolescent, without regard to the individual’s status in life. ICHPER•SD believes freedom can be realized only when one’s rights have been enabled, and, unconditional freedom can be realized only when conditions provide one the freedom to become his/her best. ICHPER•SD acknowledges its role toward fulfilling of this right, hence freedom, and accepts its responsibility, within bounds of its purposes, to help enable conditions necessary for every child and adolescent to become physically educated-a precondition to become his/her best. To these ends, ICHPER•SD will:
† UNICEF, United Nations Children’s Fund. September 2, 1990. Convention on the rights of the |