<p>If you're unathletic you should get a bad grade in gym. If you try really hard but suck at math, you still fail. So why is it that fat chunks get A's just for trying? The argument that some people just aren't athletic isn't valid since some people just aren't proficient in certain academic subjects either.</p>
<p>Because gym is nap time for academic kids, and play time for people who major in study hall. Plus, ome of those “fat chunks” and other such people who do poorly in gym sometimes do so because of physical ailments that don’t affect them in other aspects in school. Oh, and the gym teachers at my school manage to mess up our gym grading system (O - outstanding, S - satisfactory, U - unsatisfactory), so we couldn’t trust them with a normal grading system. And how exactly does one fail gym, anyway?</p>
<p>How is that fair to anyone? If you suck at a sport you fail the class? Your logic is terrible. Anyone can do well in math, not anyone can do well in a sport.</p>
<p>^ Indeed. Especially in my sister’s case (she was born with hypotonia, which is basically an abnormal loss of muscle tone) – she’ll never become a track star no matter how much she practices. On the other hand, she can easily get better at math by doing more problems, better at English by reading and writing more often, etc.</p>
<p>u mad ?</p>
<p>1234</p>
<p>That’s kinda dumb, because gym isn’t an important class. So it shouldn’t affect you that way. Your basically saying that being athletically inclined will give you a better grade then someone who isn’t. Being athletic is genetics, being good in math or english comes from good teaching.</p>
<p>I always thought the whole reason gym exists is so nobody will fail EVERYTHING, since they can at least pass gym.</p>
<p>No gym is just so schools can say you learned how to be healthy thats why all you have to do is show up plus some people just aren’t good at sports like me.</p>
<p>out gym class was just running a lot… and basketball sometimes.</p>
<p>Intelligence is also genetic. One could be great in math or english with a terrible teacher. It happens all the time. Same with great athletes with poor coaches. They’re only part nurture, the rest nature (other classes, like social studies and the sciences, are more fact based and therefore more teacher dependent). Still, genetic factors still play a large role in both.</p>
<p>But gym shouldn’t be graded like other classes.It’s just too broad. A swimming star may be terrible at basketball, and vice versa. Besides, one doesn’t learn anything particularly valuable in gym as compared to other subjects. That’s why they have sports. If anything were to be graded, perhaps improvement would be the best (like going from a 90 lb bench at the beginning of the class to a 160 lb bench press).</p>
<p>^ most people can do a pretty good weakling act. Which might throw off the grade curve a bit if success was measured by improvement.</p>
<p>Gym is such a joke at my school… I ditched math one day sophomore year to hang out with my friend in her gym class, and we literally sat there and talked while she was supposed to be running the mile. The teacher noticed and didn’t say anything, nor did he ask me to leave. :/</p>
<p>@MosbyMarion: Yes, that is true. That would be if gym were to be graded like other classes. As your example shows, it would be difficult.</p>
<p>My PE teacher actually took gym seriously and we did sprints around the hallway, if you sprint around the hallway like 4 times a quarter, then he gave you an A.</p>
<p>op scares me.</p>
<p>our gym class has a mile run as the midterm and finals.</p>
<p>one mile < 8min is A
<10min is B
<12 min is C
<14 min is D</p>
<p>^^ Your PE class sounds extremely daunting.</p>
<p>^yeah. I know at least 3 people who failed it <em>twice</em></p>
<p>Grading people based on their performance on the mile run? That sounds just like my middle school gym class! o.o The only reason why I still passed 8th grade PE was because I ran a mile under 8 minutes multiple times despite being horrible at almost every sport. I wonder if I can still do the same…</p>
<p>Lol, running the mile for a grade, har har.</p>
<p>^^That was my class’ requirement as well. The guys needed to run a mile under 6 minutes and 30 seconds though.</p>