<p>Mine makes us take 1.5 worth, plus a .25 credit health class where ya hafta take an electronic baby home for 2 days and take care of it.</p>
<p>I hate it: one AP class I could take, gone. Speaking of stupidity, our lab/AP science classes take 1.5 credits (7 periods a week) so I have to go to a study hall 3 times a week and they won't let me take a class then.</p>
<p>My school requires you to take PE every other day for all four years, unless you are on a varsity sport as a senior and then you can opt out. It otherwise amounts to two credits, since it's half a credit a year. I hate it, but they do it so you have a consistent way to "exercise" throughout the school year.</p>
<p>1.5 of PE and .5 health, but I did those in the summers. School district is now getting rid of that option, thank god i took both aldready.
Varsity tennis doesnt have any benefits whatsoever, so I just decided not to take the class.</p>
<p>GAH...don't even get me started on school requirements. 1 semester health, 2 semesters PE, and 2 semesters "practical arts" courses, which range from cooking to welding to accounting. We're also required to take a study block freshman year.</p>
<p>If you're like me, and plan to take four core subjects for all 4 years, plus a foreign language, plus choir, you're pretty much doomed to wasting six weeks in summer school, usually for multiple summers. </p>
<p>Luckily, I could get the practical arts credits conveniently via online courses (12 hours of my life I'll never get back). Seriously, though, deepest sympathy to anyone forced to opt out of a challenging academic class due to a random PE requirement. Especially if you play sports for two hours or more every day anyway.</p>
<p>2 periods out of 54-period cycle...and split up between dance and gym, if I get more than 20 mins of gym a week, it's a rarity b/c you have to change like twice in 35 minutes. Stupid. But dance > class.</p>
<p>I took one year, but the requirement was reduced to 1/2 year recently. 1/2 of health education is also required, but I took that during the summer.</p>
<p>One semester (year?) sometime throughout high school, unless you're in IB, in which case the PE requirement is waived (a good reason to pretend to the authorities that I actually am in IB, at least for now).</p>
<p>4 years. we have do two different sports a week (one on long days and the other on short days) which both change every month. Actually, we're swimming for the next two months so everyone is really mad. >_< we'll smell like chlorine for weeks after school ends.</p>