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…and, like those with mental disabilities, she would have an IEP and exceptions could be made.</p>
<p>I think this is a decent idea. Remember, the class doesn’t have to be graded at an insanely rigorous level. Just as there are math classes (ie informal geometry) for those who are bad at math, there could be “recreational activities” courses with lesser standards.</p>
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<p>It’s actually very easy to tell if someone didn’t do max reps on something like the bench press. Even on the mile run, you can often tell when a person didn’t give their best effort.</p>
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<p>Because gym is about learning how to stay healthy, not being healthy. The purpose is to a learn a process. No matter how athletic you are, if you’re loafing around and not following directions, you’re not learning that process. If you’re fat but you’re giving an honest effort, you are learning.</p>
<p>heh my gym class was actually graded in a rather difficult manner freshman year. it’s what kept me from a 4.0. it was graded on improvement in fitness testing (ie mile runs, situps, pushups, flexed arm hang, jumping, etc) and tests on sports that we played that i actually found difficult haha.</p>
<p>^Wasn’t that at the end of the year though?</p>
<p>I wasn’t too fond of the sports either. I wouldn’t identify myself as athletic. When my class was playing baseball, I accidentally hit the ball backwards while almost hitting my P.E. teacher in the head.</p>
<p>I’m a wrestler and in amazing shape, but I don’t try at gym class because I’m usually too sore from practice or weight lifting…plus I hate being sweaty in the middle of the day. I just change and get my A, but it’s sort of a pain to be FORCED to play sports</p>
<p>It would be unweighted!!!</p>
<p>I disagree, even though I run cross country and track.</p>
<p>And isn’t an eight minute mile like… 40th percentile for 9th grade and 5 lower percentiles per grade… Which means if you can’t run under eight minutes as a senior you are in the 25th percentile. 25th percentile is a 1290 SAT score.</p>
<p>My gym grade was similar. We had to run the mile in less than 10 minutes, do 25 pushups without stopping, do 40 situps, and a certain time in the shuttle run. The biggest whammy is if you don’t finish the mile in the ten minute time, your grade automatically drops one letter grade. O.o</p>
<p>Thank god I can run an eight minute mile - which is good enough for an out of shape golfer with asthma.</p>
<p>My school requires gym for all 4 years every single day. I like it as a stress relief class, not another class that is a pain to get through.</p>
<p>If you want people to be graded solely on physical ability, then there should be different levels of gym class like how regular classes are. But that’s completely ridiculous, so gym should stay as a fun class :)</p>
<p>In my school there’s strength & conditioning and sports medicine and outdoor education, which is separate to PE. They seem pointless unless you’re an athlete though, and you don’t care about your educational future. lol.</p>
<p>Gym should be pass/fail. That thing…<swears incoherently=“”></swears></p>
<p>The only problems w/ your argument…</p>
<p>1) Gym is not treated very strongly in college admissions… college admissions officers really do not care about your grade, so why should PE teachers bother to put in significant effort in evaluating you?</p>
<p>2) In most schools across the US, gym really is a joke of a class, where students don’t really do anything. Gym really is not a serious class. And the teachers are not that serious about it either. </p>
<p>3) “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.” - Agreed. Skill in a specific sport is a horrible basis of assessment. While I think physical fitness is a legitimate assessment, ability to play an individual sport is simply a terrible form of grade assessment (not that grades mattered or gym teachers actually cared or anything… -.-) because people vary in ability through the different kinds of sports. </p>
<p>4) Once again, who cares? Since when did gym grades matter, anyways? (besides passing/failing of course)</p>
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Because of gym, my class rank has dropped by at least 7. Welcome to the world of idiot gym teachers+idiot admin.</p>
<p>^Aren’t all students at your school obligated to take it though?</p>
<p>^Yah, but (non-white or sympathetic)+(incapable of running)=(B in the class).</p>
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<p>What proof do you have of this? There are certainly millions of people who struggle with math no matter how hard they try. That is the only qualm I have with your argument. I agree that grading based on one sport or possibly even more than one is wrong; however, that is because it is not evaluating anything truly important.</p>
<p>Math is picking up a pencil and applying knowledge you were taught. Sports require natural athleticism. No one can be a great player in a sport after one time. It just almost never happens.</p>
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<p>Wow. So you’re saying someone with Down Syndrome should be able to ace AP Calculus? Even if they can’t help their ailment? Your logic is faulty.</p>
<p>^ Agreed.</p>
<p>Math is not so simple. Math requires natural intelligence to a certain degree.</p>
<p>its funny though because at my school, people (even the jocks and most athletic people) struggle to get A-s. NO ONE gets an A. i struggled and got a B+ and A- this year. It is so ridiculous.
gym should be graded easily because anyone can seriously do it. it requires no intelligence at all and it is ridiculous to think that it should be graded like other classes like math.
wow…</p>