Physical education teacher Traci Branham demonstrates use of the Sportwall XerTrainer on Friday morning at Lake Forest Middle School. Bradley County Schools received an $800,000 grant to promote active lifestyles for children.CLEVELAND, Tenn. – Coming soon to Bradley County’s public schools: More than $243,000 worth of exercise equipment.
The school system is using some money from the federal Carol M. White Physical Education Program grant to make the purchases. The money was awarded last year.
The shopping list includes 65 stationary bicycles, at $1,021 each, for the county’s two middle schools and two high schools, and 40 bicycles, $672 each, for the two high schools. Including a maintenance contract, the total is $75,878.
The school system also is using $37,000 from the White grant to buy a ropes course for Ocoee Middle School. Lake Forest Middle already has a ropes course, purchased with another grant.
And the school system is buying climbing wall systems for various schools for a total of $130,154.