Who would’ve thought it? The answer for America’s chubby teens isn’t more physical education ; it’s a video game.

Even if some of us have too much shame to hop on the dance floor, we’ve all heard of it: Dance Dance Revolution is a worldwide sensation. Not only that, it might help people lose weight.

It really is quite a wonderful toy, as thousands across West Virginia are finding. At about $100 a pop, the state filled its 756 middle schools with the machines. Imagine that. Thousands of chubby children bouncing up and down simultaneously. It just sounds healthy.

Consider what this is going to do to society. Children will be more fit, and science has proved that fitness creates happier people. So we’ll be happy, but not anywhere near as happy as we’ll be when we can walk into a club confidently, smug expression writ large because we know what to do with our feet.

And then, with more good dancers in the world, more people will dance together, so it seems plausible that more people will hook up. That will make people happier, too. Or maybe not, whatever.

And that brings us to the real issue. If people are hooking up more because they are fitter and good at dancing, there will be more babies in the world.

Then we’ll have to buy more Dance Dance Revolution kits so we can keep them fit and good at dancing.

How do we solve this? More sex education.

For every solution a new problem is created. We on the Northern Star edit board still applaud West Virginia’s prudent decision to try something new. Only one of the five members on this edit board consider themselves to be a good dancer, but she’s a girl, so it doesn’t count. All girls seem to be good at dancing. The rest of us need help and wish our middle and high schools were outfitted with Dance Dance Revolution machines.