<p>OMG ,come on ,this is my favourite class.It is so pleasant to play some volleyball or basketball between Math and Chemistry classes ;] .
And how can you hate sports classes only because ''you can do sth more productive or enriching'' .No one can study all the time.WIll you be happy to attend a college and be fat and ''slow'' .. nobody likes people who study only .You will be surprised how athletic people are at top schools like Harvard,Yale ,MIT</p>
<p>I don't have a problem with being active during the school day. what i do have a problem with is that so many schools try to turn PE into an academic class. just let us play, man.</p>
<p>Woot for gym exemption (tennis)!</p>
<p>I agree, I think Phys Ed as a requirement is pretty pointless. Here, you're only required to take it freshman year. I've always hated Phys Ed though, it can be a very horrible experience for those who are not strong in the area of athleticism.</p>
<p>we are required to take 2 years of PE
I dont have anything against it but its kinda a waste of time in my opinion since many kids already get enough physical exercise from outside school activities</p>
<p>yes, but without pe, there are a good many kids who would never participate in any physical activity.</p>
<p>i don't really have too much of a problem with gym because i'm so used to it.</p>
<p>i've had it all through elementary & middle school.
and i have it every other day all through high school.</p>
<p>^^ Me too. And since it's the last class of the day, it's nice to take my AP and Honors Chem frustration out on the court. lol</p>
<p>Required PE is nothing more than </p>
<p>1) The state's half-assed attempt to curb this nation's growing obesity epidemic among the youth
2) The PE teacher's source of free labor (i.e. clean up the locker room, gym, etc.)</p>
<p>My high school required it. 4 1-hour classes a week for 4 years. Freshman year, everyone who wasn't doing a team sport took the same PE class, it was a mix of health ed. courses and units of tennis, archery, volleyball, etc. I have terrible depth perception, and I've always been too heavy to run fast, so I'm no good at any kind of games. Kids who were playing team sports could waive their PE credit, though, and at my high school all the sports had separate teams for freshmen and it was pretty easy to get on them, so most of the kids in the general PE classes weren't much more athletic than I was.</p>
<p>After freshman year, we could pick our PE classes, and my high school offered dance classes for PE credit, so that was okay. I took two years of ballet--not that I thought I'd magically become some great dancer, but I already knew I was going to major in classical music at college, and knowing something about dance makes you a more educated musician. Besides, it beat getting whacked in the head with a volleyball all the time. :)</p>
<p>(Senior year was no problem because my high school had a special course for seniors. It was called Body-Mind Research, it was yoga and Alexander technique and meditation and stress management and stuff, and we got a science credit for it as well as our 4th year of PE.)</p>
<p>^That's a lot of options! How big is your school?</p>
<p>PE is seriously a waste of time. The only really physical thing we do in PE is running the mile every week. Its just a socializing period for me :]</p>
<p>i guess i'm the first in this thread to be able to say that it is not a requirement at my current school. though i was in a different school in freshman year, and it was a requirement there. so i still had to waste an hour a day for an entire school year running back and forth during gym, acting like i was doing something.</p>
<p>we have pe all 4 years and i love it because it provides a good break in teh middle of the day and takes your mind off the academic ****</p>
<p>My school is a little different. We have wellness classes required for everyone, but they integrate both health and the actual physical activity. Freshman do less book work and more activity, but sophmores have more book work and don't concentrate as much on physical activity. I'm not sure about juniors and seniors, but I don't think there are required wellness classes for them.</p>
<p>1 year of PE was required of 2010 class, 2011 class (or one after that, can't remember) have to take 2 years, the current requirement.</p>
<p>We have to take PE every other day for all four years in my school. It isn't so bad though, the teacher lets us do whatever we want. Health class (state requirement) was so much worse. The teacher was determined to make us learn, but she usually had no idea what she was talking about (eg, "Don't put cell phones in your pocket - they have radioactive batteries!")</p>
<p>At my old school you only needed a semester of it. But at my new school they require a full year. So now I have a scary .5 credit of phys ed lurking for me to complete...which I've completely ignored while arranging my new junior schedule, bahaha.</p>
<p>Which means I will probably have to take it senior year :(</p>
<p>My son's school also requires the HOPE program. A 1 year program required to graduate. However, they do offer a waiver for someone who completes 2 seasons in a sport. The problem is this waiver ONLY applies to the physical fitness portion of the requirement and does nothing towards the health portion. My son is in football and basically gets more exercise all year long (with conditioning, practices, etc) than he would ever get in PE, but he has no way to complete the health portion because the school does not offer a health course. So he has a choice....take the Health competency test (which no one can tell you what it encopasses, or how to study for it) or take HOPE (which is 1 day of fitness, 1 day of health, and repeat all year long)....I think this is rediculous. On a typical (off season) day, he already works out 2 hours after school. During practice, he works out 4hrs/day. Incidentally, he was also put into weight training class because his other elective classes were full.... So that's another hour/day of physical fittness...... When I ask the conselour about the health portion, she tells me that HOPE is a new program and the state is still working on what to do for the people who get the waiver. It has been 2 years already!</p>
<p>Yeah, I feel you, I have to take my PE and art requirements next year D:</p>