Would you rather...specialists and generalists in #physed

I recently Tweeted a poll (that I unfortunately deleted by mistake). I asked the following question:

Would you rather your students have physical education 2-3 times a week with a specialist or 4-5 times a week with a generalist?

Stats:
135 participants voted
80% voted for the first option (2-3 times a week with a specialist)
20% voted for the second option (4-5 times a week with a generalist)

Interesting conversations ensued:

Full disclosure, I voted for generalists 4-5 times a week. The vote is based on my personal experience of having taught as a ''generalist''. I taught my grade 5 students the following subjects: French, mathematics, social studies, sciences, arts and physical education (4 times a week). My 1st specialist taught a combined class of physical education and health. My second specialist taught one class of music and my third specialist taught English twice a week. As a generalist, I was able to find holes in the gymnasium schedule and pencil in my classroom. This allowed me to get them in the gymnasium 4-5 times a week. When we didn't have access to the gymnasium we would have our physical education class outside. I also didn't like them to move for 60 minutes and then sit for the rest of the day. I added lots of movement opportunities in the classroom. We have to be careful to not create a generation of actively sedentary students.

The reality is that we need our students to have physical education and movement opportunities every day and that won't happen with physed specialists only. Both the physical education and generalist teacher need to combine forces in order to make sure our students move enough throughout the day.

Learn to move.

Move to learn.