This week my 12-year-old daughter was telling me about running the mile in physical education class for physical fitness testing. I made a comment that her time could have been much better if it hadn’t been so hot and windy when she ran it. She informed me that she beat the required time by almost three minutes. That got my attention, so I went to Google again. According to Google in the mid 1980’s the required time for a 12-year-old girl would have been around 8 minutes and 30 seconds. Today the required time is 11 minutes 5 seconds.
The standards have been lowered, no doubt to fit…
