<p>Who else is ticked off that P.E. is a requirement in high school?</p>
<p>Does anyone go to a high school where Phys. Ed. is not mandatory?</p>
<p>I'm a pretty athletic person but I hate having a class where I play games... when I could be in a more enriching course.</p>
<p>And yes, this is somewhat of a rant. Sorry.</p>
<p>I’m able to take weight training to satisfy my school’s requirement. I’d rather be doing something else, but at least I’m gaining more than I would in normal PE.</p>
<p>My kids school used to allow playing on a varsity team to meet the requirement, but no longer, since “health education” is the state (I believe) requirement, and this includes more than planing games.</p>
<p>I’m taking JROTC to satisfy my school’s requirement. It’s academic, training, and fun so no problem :P</p>
<p>It’s only mandatory freshman and sophomore year at my school, but I still manage the Tennis Team (which got me PE credit soph year haha) after school which unfortunately takes up a lot of time and I enjoy as little as general PE (though I suppose I don’t sweat as much).</p>
<p>Yes, it’s a requirement. It’s not that I hate the class so much, it’s just that its a total waste of my time. I probably wouldn’t take another academic class instead since I already have 6, but maybe I would have taken an elective. It’s mandatory 4 days a week, all 4 years.</p>
<p>At my school, it is mandatory 9th and 10th grade. After that, you get a study in place of a gym class. Now, my school just switched over to making ALL four years mandatory, starting after my grade. (So I only have to take 2 years!) :)</p>
<p>It’s required in 9th grade at my school. It’s called H.O.P.E (Health Opportunities through Physical Education) :rolleyes:</p>
<p>We are outside actually doing activities for three days of the week; the other two we sit in a classroom. We are supposed to be learning but our teacher (like most other gym teachers) is careless and we literally sit there for the entire hour talking, playing on our cellphones and iPods.</p>
<p>It’s such a joke. I’d much rather be taking something much more productive.</p>
<p>At my school we have to take a semester in 7th grade, a semester in 8th grade and then two semesters somewhere in 9-12. Most people get it out of the way in freshman and sophomore years but there are always a couple of juniors and there might be that lone, sad senior, upset that s/he didn’t get gym out of the way before. I found out right after I finished my last year of gym that if you have about 12 hours of outside physical activity and your counselor likes you enough (ie: you’re a good kid, high grades, no major disciplining) you can get out of gym. I had all that (I dance), but it didn’t matter by then. Ugh!</p>
<p>ugh, I hatee physical education.
here, you are required to take one gym class freshman year[when I was a freshman, we had intro to p.e. which just a regular sports playing gym class, but the year after they got rid of intro and made every freshman take fitness, which is a class where you actually have to do work and learn about staying healthy and stuff.] all of our gym classes are semester-long.
but yea, then you have to take another gym class in order to graduate. i took my intro class first semester freshman year, and then my second one[i chose lifetime sports because it’s for less competitive people, whereas the other class, team sports is aimed at those who are really into sports], i took first semester sophomore year. i’m soo glad i got my second gym class out of the way, so my junior and senior years could be gym class-free.=]</p>
<p>in both of the classes i took, we were required to take tests at the end of each unit, which i thought was kind of dumb…why do we need to study about who invented volleyball and whatnot?</p>
<p>see, it would be cool if we could take something other that ‘general PE’ to fulfill our requirement. But of course we can’t. We have to take gen. PE, have to learn about all this BS stuff about the games we play and ‘staying fit,’ and it’s just stupid.</p>
<p>and get this. my county is such a nanny state that we’re not allowed to play dodgeball because it ‘encourages violence and bullying’ and ‘unfairly targeting particular students.’ so instead, we had to play, no joke, “avoid the sphere.”</p>
<p>what a load.</p>
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<p>roflmfaomg</p>
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<p>hahahaa. yeaa, dodgeball isn’t allowed at my high school, but in my middle school gym classes we played it allll the time. which i thought was kind of odd, but whatever.</p>
<p>Gym and Dodgeball are awesome.</p>
<p>Here you need a semester freshman year and a semester sophomore year.</p>
<p>required all through HS…■■■…</p>
<p>It’s required in my school. It’s called H.O.P.E (Health Opportunities through Physical Education) It’s a one year class, but luckily after this we are done with P.E for good!</p>
<p>We are outside actually doing activities for three days of the week; the other two we sit in a classroom. We are supposed to be learning but our teacher (like most other gym teachers) is careless and we literally sit there for the entire hour talking, playing on our cellphones and iPods. It’s basically all common sense.</p>
<p>It’s such a joke. I’d much rather be taking something much more productive.</p>
<p>^ Isn’t that what SeekingUni said?</p>
<p>All four years, two to three days a week. Freshman year I took it for 45 consecutive days (it was part of a rotation block), sophomore year I took it for a semester three days a week, junior year I’m taking it two days a week all year alternating with health, and next year I am taking it three days a week. 
Soph, junior, and senior years wrap around my science labs.</p>
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It’s identical to what I said. :p</p>
<p>…weird.</p>