<p>By the way, some colleges have PE requirement as well, and you can't graduate without fulfilling them. (I don't know if NYU does...)</p>
<p>"That is sooo weird that your school never contacted you that you were cutting close to the absence allowance policy. You should say something about it- especially if it's in your rule book. LOOK IT UP- read it and see if you can find a loophole.</p>
<p>Otherwise... just offer to work out in the school's gym after school. That's what I did... I think.... I don't even remember the crap I had to do in order to stay "passed" in gym..."</p>
<p>Are you kidding? A student skips a bunch of classes and should get a pass because the school didn't notify her that she was skipping classes? </p>
<p>Look for a loophole? </p>
<p>How about personal responsibility?
Sheesh.</p>
<p>When I was a senior at a private high school (more than 20 years ago), I ended up taking an aerobics class to make up the missed pe credit. At my school, there were no pe classes -everyone had to participate in an afterschool sport. My senior year, I had conflicts with the afterschool sport I was in (Golf team) because of an independent project I was doing for school. I thought I could fit it all in (Golf team, independent project and my job), but I ended up missing most of the Golf practices and all of the games to meet my other obligations. I talked with my headmaster about my predicament and he suggested the outside aerobics class.</p>
<p>I'd be interested to see the responses if this were a "real" class. Somehow I don't think people would be so willing to just let it slide. Oh, nevermind-- sure they would. We should just give in because "every person is special" and we can't "hurt" them.</p>
<p>Is it no wonder over 30% of America is OBESE and something like 60% are OVERWEIGHT.</p>
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<p>I get a phone call -- automated -- if S is even late to school! He missed ONE first period class (guitar) last semester because of an emergency orthodontist appointment, and even though I'd emailed all his teachers, GC, and vice principal AND called the attendance office, I still got the call.</p>
<p>Actually now you mention it that happened to us as well. My daughter never missed classes unless there was a reason like doctors. Those automated calls were awful - as they always came in the evening with no info so we had to wait till the next day to get them sorted out. I jumped all over my son the first time thinking we got the recorded voice till I discovered it was always (phew) a mistake in their cases. </p>
<p>hops_scout - I am sure you are correct - we are generally being easier on the OP because it is PE. If it were math or something we would be being a lot harsher. In the end it should not matter what the class was - our reaction should be the same. As the school's is which the OP is finding out the hard way.</p>
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<p>Yes, because it's really the responsibility of our schools to make sure we're exercising regularly. Screw education, as long as we're physically fit.</p>
<p>Please.</p>
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Yes, because it's really the responsibility of our schools to make sure we're exercising regularly. Screw education, as long as we're physically fit.</p>
<p>Please.
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<p>You missed the point. It's the sheer lack of a concern that a student skips PE because "(s)he doesn't feel like going" but the teacher should make it work out so that the student graduates.</p>
<p>And, you miss the point that America is NOT physically fit!! You expect the government to pay for your health care, do this and that for you, why shouldn't physical fitness be included too?</p>
<p>...I do not expect the government to pay for my healthcare. That's why I pay for insurance (which, most of the time, is not government-run but a private company...unless you're in Canada).</p>
<p>I understand that the attitude is wrong, I've just never understood the argument that PE is a MUST. If a kid doesn't want to participate, they're not going to. I know that at my school, General PE is a joke. All the laziest kids take General PE...the rest of us play sports (I myself did Golf for three years).</p>
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<p>And I've never understood why English class is a requirement. Or literature. Or chemistry. Should I continue??</p>
<p>talk to the teacher and ask her what you can do to make UP THE MISSED CLASSES. If she says come every day for the rest of the semester PLUs RUN twice a week after school, I suggest you do exactly that.</p>
<p>If she won't budge, then see if you can drop it and get an incomplete, immediately sign up for online course or community college joint enrollment.</p>
<p>hops_scout...I'm going to make a wild stab in the dark (seriously, I'm not being sarcastic or trying to offend you) and presume that you're at least decently athletic.</p>
<p>I'm not. I'm overweight, yes, and I've just never been into sports. I enjoy playing volleyball at the beach with friends as much as the next girl, but that's entirely different if you ask me (in that there's no pressure).</p>
<p>In middle school, before I started golf (which I'm decent at, but then most people will tell you golf takes no athletic ability ((I disagree, but there we are))), I was ostracized for my lack of athletic ability. My TEACHERS would pull me aside and tell me that I "wasn't making an effort", even though I was-I just wasn't very good. In 7th grade, my teacher ostracized me and one of my friends to the point of tears, all because we couldn't run a mile in under 10 minutes. In 8th grade, a different teacher threatened to fail me if I didn't make up two mile-runs that I had missed that were EXCUSED by a doctor's note (I have asthma and I had a respiratory infection for two weeks, causing me to miss those two miles...running for me under those circumstances would have been very difficult and most likely painful).</p>
<p>Now correct me if I'm wrong, but I doubt that a chemistry teacher would tell a student that she "wasn't making an effort" simply because they struggled to understand a Bohr model. I had such emotional scarring after my experience with this that I refused to do PE any longer...I switched to Golf in high school, I was reduced to having to go to therapy the summer between 8th and 9th grade, and I am still self-conscious about my athletic ability to the point where I very rarely will play sports with my friends.</p>
<p>On a different note, my PEERS ostracized me as well. They told me I was worthless, they never wanted me on their teams, they would yell "earthquake" as I walked by...</p>
<p>So you'll excuse me if I fail to see the need to let others go through the same thing I went through.</p>
<p>HGFM, I hate to be the one to ruin a story so touching, but the OP isn't trying and not succeeding. In fact, he's not trying. He's sleeping.</p>
<p>I like sleeping as much as the next guy, but to miss a class to the point of failing just because he wants an extra half hour of sleep is intolerable. If I were the OP's teacher, I wouldn't lose sleep over failing him. It shows a mighty lack of respect to so deliberately cut class, and he deserves that failure.</p>
<p>That being said, I do think that he should try to make up the classes whenever he can, even if he receives no credit. I have always believed that, if you miss an assignment, you must make it up, even with no reward.</p>
<p>Yes, I was a "decent" high school athlete. I played 3 sports and while I wasn't a star, I found my way onto the playing field or court. I would also be, by Body Mass Index, fall under being "Overweight" since I have gained a few pounds since my high school career ended last spring.</p>
<p>Physical ability is not the only thing that people will make fun of you for. I was made fun of in high school for having different values, for being a "teacher's pet," etc. Should I then go around making sure others don't "go through the same thing I went through?"</p>
<p>Your sob story doesn't bother me. I had a roommate last semester who was extremely obese. He was also EXTREMELY lazy and he ate horrible food. But don't worry, it's not his fault. :confused"</p>
<p>I feel Physical Education and Health should be requirements much more so than many other classes. We are required to take 4 years of English class in high school, but only 2 PE classes and one Health class. That's backwards to me.</p>
<p>To the OP:
You are (as you have admitted) in trouble because of your own choice to sleep in instead of going to class. Start tomorrow morning to try to make this train-wreck not happen.
Depending on your district, they may have a vested interest in helping you graduate. Kids who fail to graduate hurt the district. Meet with your assistant principal or dean and take full responsibility for the problem and ask if there's a way to still gradute. Most school districts want to keep their graduation numbers up. Mention off campus PE, CC PE, etc. Start one now even if it might not count. Pay for it yourself, your parents didn't sleep in and miss class.
From now until graduation, don't even be a minute late again to any class, or miss any deadlines, or blow off any assignments. If this goes into some sort of review in the district, you want to be the glowing example of good student-ship.
Keep on it even if you hear "no" the first several times. Politely, respectfully, firmly keep trying. Is there a summer alternative?</p>
<p>I'm sorry but am I the only one who thinks this is extremely funny? I mean this kid did not "accidentally" forget to set his alarm clock a few times, he didn't oversleep because he was up all night working on a project, and he didn't have a lot of morning doctors appointments. This kid decided to sleep in every single morning thinking "oh its just pe. who really cares?" yet not when he is at risk of not graduating and having his admission taken away he now wants to be worried?</p>
<p>everyone gets what they deserve. make wise choices.</p>
<p>Not funny - sad.</p>
<p>And some of the advice here, while well-intentioned, is directed at trying to help the OP escape the consequences of his/her actions, at the expense of the time and energy of the teacher, administrators, etc. Again, as a teacher near the end of the school year, I'm not seeing the humor.</p>
<p>The F has been earned and awarded. Time to move on and see what the actual consequences will be. </p>
<p>The teacher would be completely justified in not wasting time speaking to this student about the previous quarter.</p>
<p>ZamZam-I'm not saying the OP should get special treatment at all. </p>
<p>One of the best experiences I had in HS was that I missed a science class Unit Test the day I got my braces off. The teacher in question only gave one day to make up said tests, and I forgot. She refused to let me take the test, and I ended up having to work my butt off to avoid failing. I'll never make that mistake again. :)</p>
<p>hops_scout...I've been made fun of for everything you listed and more. And by BMI, I'm "morbidly obese" (although I am losing weight and I've lost roughly 27 pounds so far). Don't try and give me crap about how I don't matter because others have it worse than me...that's perhaps the most brittle argument I've ever heard.</p>
<p>I don't thing the OP should have his or her admission rescinded because of PE.
That class isn't even required by colleges.</p>
<p>Did you, th OP, have any hardships or injuries that kept you from going to PE?</p>
<p>it is required by his HIGH SCHOOL, so regardless of what the colleges require, if he doesn't graduate, that would be something colleges would notice</p>
<p>and the OP can't claim ignorance just laziness...if I was the teacher...he would be doing ALL that has been suggested....</p>