<p>I was just reading one of the schedule threads and noticed that almost nobody had gym as part of their schedule. Is this normal? At my school, 4 years of gym is REQUIRED for graduation. I thought this was a general standard, but it doesn't seem to be. So, what's your schools gym/health class policy?</p>
<p>Well for me in Stockton, CA it’s two years. I would hate it if it was four, less educational classes ):</p>
<p>Well most im guessing more state requirements are different? Im unsure as well as I had to take 3 semesters of Gym along with 4 semesters of writing electives. (Creative Writing, Media Lit. and so on.)</p>
<p>The gym requirements vary a lot throughout schools, especially more and more now since kids are only getting fatter. With my school, we have to take a 1 credit class in wellness and half a credit in PE. However, you can get out of PE by doing a sport.</p>
<p>We also have a fitness test they offer at the beginning of each semester where you do 100 pushups, 200 situps and run a mile on a time limit. Make it under the time limit and you get to skip the class. But there was still no getting out of wellness, which was 5 months of easy exercises, followed by lectures about things like “Don’t have sex, don’t swim, don’t do drugs, don’t touch people of the opposite gender, don’t look at them, and don’t think about them, or you’ll get and STD and die.”</p>
<p>Kids who did JROTC for two semesters got out of both wellness and PE though.</p>
<p>If there’s an opportunity to fit in another honors/AP class, leave it to some CCers to find a way.</p>
<p>I need one credit of gym, which is either two years with lab sciences, or if you take AP sciences or non-lab sciences freshman and/or sophomore year, it is one year of gym.</p>
<p>Don’t worry witty. Your not the only one with 4 years of gym. I’m stuck with it too. :(</p>
<p>We’re required to have 1.5 credits (3 semesters) in athletics, but it has to be spread out over at least 3 years. If you don’t do a sport, because of the way required courses are scheduled, you take gym freshman year (everyone, even athletes), junior year, and senior year.</p>
<p>Two years… Unless youre a dancer, because I go to an arts school…</p>
<p>We have three years required to be signed up for a gym class, but if you’re in a sport, you don’t have to go to that gym class at that time.</p>
<p>your school is awesome, i havent had gym for 2 years, thats depressing. :(</p>
<p>At my old school (…feels weird to say that. Just had my last day…) you need four years of gym, every other day. It’s pretty terrible, if you ask me. At my NEW school, you only need ONE TRIMESTER. It’s complete bliss.</p>
<p>We have to take 3 semesters of it, so depending on your schedule, you take it freshman, sophomore and junior or senior year.
There is no way to get out of it, except for a month long summer gym. No thank you. </p>
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<p>I need 2 semesters of gym and 1 semester of health. I took an intensive health during the summer one year, but unfortunately I will have to take gym my senior year. Pointless when I have done a varsity sport every eyar.</p>
<p>We have to have two years of an athletic elective. I actually took three years of track but it was double blocked so I lost two of my actual class periods and I only had six classes a year instead of eight so for my senior year I’m not doing it.</p>
<p>Some people may elect to leave it out of their schedules because no one is interested in a gym class.</p>
<p>Also, different states have different requirements.</p>
<p>We have to take 4 years of Gym with an alternate of health one marking period every year. But I like it that way. If we could drop it, then colleges would expect me to replace it with another AP class or something. I’m perfectly fine with a free period every day haha</p>
<p>i wish i still had gym…it was one of my favorite classes but over here we only have it for 2 years.</p>
<p>4 years of gym for this guy…AND we actually have to study for quizzes in gym. They’re not hard, but a pain.</p>
<p>At my school you only have to take 1.5 semesters of gym. One of those semesters is health, and the other two have to be fulfilled with a PE class, but you can get that waived if you do two seasons of varsity sports in your junior and senior year.</p>
<p>You must have at least 2 years of Gym or ROTC to graduate, or 1 1/2 year of Gym and 1/2 year of Health.</p>