5. Calls on the Member States and competent authorities to provide physical education teachers with training in the issue of gender by including this aspect in their curriculum; calls for an end to the downgrading of the status of physical education as a subject and of the status of PE teachers; stresses the importance of the possibility of sports coeducation for chil
dren at nursery and primary schools as well as the option of having either sports coeducation or single sex classes from secondary level onwards in order to encourage girls to try out sports traditionally practiced by men ; stresses the need to explore alternative forms o
...[+++]f physical activity, which could be practiced on an optional basis, preferably outside compulsory state education;