<p>having a requirement for physical education takes away a lot of opportunities academically especially at schools like mine where you can only take 6 classes. one extracurricular activity within the school day (ie. orchestra, choir, drama, robotics, etc) with PE makes only four periods available. in addition there's the foreign language requirement and the visual and performing arts requirement. all this can affect the academic performance during high school. many people refer to PE as a joke, not doing much. and most people exercise at night or during the day, for that matter, outside of school.
if you're in shape, or you have good exercising ethics, do you think it's necessary that states have a PE requirement in high school?</p>
<p>PE is a waste of time and an obstacle to academic progress. My stupid school requires 3 years of it.</p>
<p>our school requires 2 years, but people with orchestra and other extracurriculars, with the budget cuts affecting the classes we can take, are forced to give up on a subject by taking summer school.
it totally ruined my schedule
why do states require it anyways?</p>
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<p>Why so serious?</p>
<p>PE is stupid. the athletic kids always end up getting more exercise than the kids out of shape (who often just walk around and do the minimum required).</p>
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<p>Is it necessary at all? It doesn’t impact our health, for better or for worse, in the slightest.</p>
<p>My school requires 4 years and it’s so stupid. People who don’t care won’t do anything, and people who care will be fit on their own. It doesn’t actually keep anyone healthy, because people just walk around, don’t participate, and stand there. Especially in my school’s new grading system where if you don’t change once you go down 4%, I think it is?</p>
<p>My district requires one semester (taken with Health). Both were a waste of my life, because I always did the minimum needed, and for health, they had only stupidass abstinence classes, which are a waste of money and time. I ended up signing my abstinence pledge with my brother’s name (despite me being a girl).</p>
<p>at my school, we have to take PE all 4 years, 3 out of 4 marking periods a year (the other marking period each year is health). sure it’s a waste of time, but I LOVE IT.</p>
<p>why?</p>
<p>cause i hate sitting around all day. i’m an active person who likes running around and playing sports: football, volleyball, tennis, softball, ultimate frisbee, all that fun stuff we do in gym. sure, there’s some ■■■■■■■■ stuff and it sucks that time but i deal with it.</p>
<p>Man, I remember this one gym teacher I had that graded people based off of the level of effort they’d put into class. My favorite part was how some of my friends wound up getting Cs and Bs because they wouldn’t do anything other than stand on the sideline or not even attempt to play. It was great when they’d start complaining about how it was ruining their GPA.</p>
<p>I wasn’t on any sports teams, not that athletic, and was taking the full AP/honors load, but I still felt gym was a great time to blow off steam from other classes and let my mind take a break.</p>
<p>^haha lmao. I wonder if the same happens with the pass/fail system and caltech’s PE courses.</p>
<p>You need exercise.</p>
<p>It’s a graduation requirement, so of course it’s necessary.</p>
<p>Apparently not, my gym teacher didn’t require us ladies to do anything.</p>
<p>I have no idea why so many HSLers hate PE so much.</p>
<p>My school requires 11/12 seasons over four years (3 seasons a year). They claim it’s because they want kids to be in shape, but you can get PE credit for “managing” a team, which requires zero exercise. Or in the spring we have Frisbee offered–last year the students just staged a sit-in and refused to play. I usually just walked back and forth across the field with my friends. I seriously think they’re just trying to waste my time. At least it’s Pass/Fail. Do you guys have PE during the school day? Because we’re forced to spend time that could be for ECs/HW/life on PE. Ew.</p>
<p>Why HSLers hate PE? We’re nerds, duh.</p>
<p>My school requires 4 full years of it. And its none of that bull sitting around gym that I heard so often of at other schools. It’s intense physical education at times -_-</p>
<p>I think a lot of PE has to do with your teacher too. If you have a fun teacher, not even an easy one, just a fun one who actually cares, then it can be a lot of fun and not that bad. My teacher this year is awful. We’re doing football now and have maybe 5 girls in the class. When they’re offsides, he yells at them and threatens to give them zeroes for not playing correctly. One day one of the girls said that she doesn’t even know what offsides means, and he said “you just catch the ball and run.” Gym teachers, for the most part, are idiots.</p>
<p>Illinois requires gym every year. Good thing I can exempt out of it…</p>
<p>Its insane to make extracurriculars a class. The point of them is that they are EXTRA curricular, and not part of the school day.</p>