What if your high school gym teacher allowed you to replace the always painful President's Physical Fitness Test with a few rounds on the Nintendo Wii? Great idea, right? Not so much, according to a UK education group.

Five British schools last year decided to incorporate the Wii into its sports curriculum, specifically targeting kids who had opted out of physical education or did not participate in after-school activities.

The concept didn't sit too well with the Campaign for Real Education, which accused the Wii program of "pandering to the views of the physically idle." The group's leader apparently thinks the school systems' efforts would be better spent on "serious competitive sports."

That type of attitude is probably why those kids chose not to take gym in the first place. How many times did I pray for rain in high school so drills on the soccer field were replaced by study halls or an "educational" film strip? Not that my video game skills are any more impressive than my basketball or soccer abilities, but I'd gladly have traded in those dingy, flag football Velcro belts for some quality time with the Wii.

Heck, even the old folks are getting into it: