<p>My school mandates that everyone takes 4yrs of PE.
Personally, I see the importance of PE because for some students it is their only exercise.
On the other other hand, I miss out on classes like AP Stats, AP Comp Sci, & AP Psych because I have to take PE.</p>
<p>My question is whether PE should be mandated across the country or if it should be optional.
In my school, the kids who already get enough exercise outside of class participate in PE and the kids, who don't sports or workout, don't participate in PE (walk on run days).</p>
<p>My school makes PE mandatory freshman year, which can be taken over the summer. There are also elective gym classes that people can take in later years.</p>
<p>Personally, I feel that exercise is important. However, I would also hate having to take gym instead of AP classes (that sounded kind of nerdy…). Anyways, it’s a touchy subject. Exercise is certainly important, but is it worth mandating at the sake of academics? Maybe there could be waivers for anyone participating in a sport or something.</p>
<p>I don’t think PE should be mandated. At my school, you have to take 4 semesters of PE, one each year, which means PE is on your schedule half the time you are in high school. I think there should be some way you can test out of PE. Perhaps if you pass a fitness test and are deemed healthy you can be exempt from PE. At my school at least, I don’t even get any exercise from PE, so it isn’t worth taking.</p>
<p>My school has a mandatory of 3 PE classes. If you are lazy you can just take all of them your freshman year lol. We have cross training, a bunch of swimming classes, weight lifting classes, advanced performance classes (for epic jocks), and the most popular: General PE class (run, play sports, learn how to live healthy life, pacer tests, etc…)</p>
<p>I always take 1 of each per year</p>
<p>PE is mandatory at my school. But thing is a lot of kids take classes like team sports and stuff like that.</p>
<p>PE is mandatory at my school for two years or you don’t get to graduate. In my opinion, PE should be optional.</p>
<p>In my school, every kid takes gym every other day for 4 years. I really wish it was only 1 or 2; it would be nice to have a study hall or take an elective course instead. Our gym classes aren’t even beneficial; we play sports for about 4 weeks and we’re graded on how well we can play. Gym should at least try to emphasize healthy living, instead of how to correctly throw balls around.</p>
<p>The problem with PE is that often it isn’t even a legitimate form of exercise. The point is to reduce obesity but if no one cares or is exercising it doesn’t do anything. I mean I know a people who have gotten their PE credits by taking an online PE class.</p>
<p>My school only mandates a years worth (1 credit) of PE. I finished all of my PE credits during the summer before my freshman year. However, everyone still has to take the Fitnessgram at the end the year (you don’t have to pass it either). Most people BS it though by doing like 2 push ups and 3 laps for the pacer test.</p>
<p>It would be awesome if the sport programs I do over the summer allowed me to be exempt from PE.</p>
<p>@Voberaptor it is similar at our school, you can take regular PE which is sports and I might get the required daily exercise like 5 days out of 2 semesters of having the class daily
There are also Athletic PE classes(for soph, jr, & Sr) which are hard workouts daily. (I’m currently taking one). </p>
<p>In my opinion, PE classes should be mandated Freshmen yr(when AP classes aren’t an option) and maybe Soph yr. Instead of team sports, they should focus on workouts and teaching students how make their own workout plans. </p>
<p>To stay healthy in school comes down to the student and PE really isn’t serving that big of a purpose.
No one is getting the total amount of exercise recommended daily</p>
<p>Our school requires 1 year of PE(1/2 credit for each semester, all other courses give 1 credit per semester). Ironically, the jocks generally don’t do so well in gym because 30% of your grade is written tests which they don’t study for and fail because the questions are like “How many feet is the crossbar from the ground?”</p>