President Trump wants to make American schoolchildren traumatized again, said in USA Today . Seeking to whip the nation's youth into shape, he recently signed an executive order to reinstate the Presidential Fitness Test — an exercise in humiliation dreamed up "when emotionally torturing children was legal." A version of the test was first launched in the late 1950s by President Dwight Eisenhower, who was alarmed that our youngsters lagged Europeans in basic fitness. In the following decades, public school students ages 10 to 17 were, once or twice a year, required to run a mile and complete a sit-and-reach, a pull-up, and other exercises. For millions of us non-jocks, it was sheer torture. I recall weeping while staggering a mile in the Florida heat, and being made to "feel like week-

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