<p>I'm in the state of Illinois and it's not required all four years at my school. We have to take PE as freshmen for one semester. The other semester we take health. Sophomore year we have to take a full year of PE however you can take weight training for PE credit provided you have taken PE one semester.</p>
<p>At our school, you can get out of taking PE by being in the band! But athletes still have to take the class??!??</p>
<p>We have a 400,000 dollar fitness center at our school that the PE classes use some.</p>
<p>I hated PE freshman year because I'm much too competitive for regular PE games. Therefore, I took weight training for 6 semesters and plan to get back into it for 2nd semester this year.</p>
<p>Personally, I think PE should be required all 4 years!</p>
<p>Yes. Doesn't count in your GPA though, good thing because I got a C in gym this quarter. My first C ever (on a report card). :P They're being really harsh on everyone because they want to make it count as a "real" class so everyone won't take it as a joke (which it is).</p>
<p>And also, I don't think the obesity problem is even slightly helped by gym. I was very overweight and gym was torture because I either felt I couldn't do something, or was made fun of for trying something. Gym didn't help me at all - it made me feel worse is anything. I currently lost 55 pounds by excercising at home and eating healthy (<em>cough</em> not school food <em>cough</em>).</p>
<p>If schools wanted to help the problem at all they'd serve healthy lunches, get rid of the soda and snack machines, and make nutrition courses a requirement. Most of the people at my school have no idea what they're putting into their body and just because they're skinny or "average" they think they're healthy. People don't even know what the stuff on the nutrition labels mean.</p>
<p>Our gym lasts about 25 minutes after attendence is taken and people get dressed. No way that can make up for all the junk people will eat at lunch later that day.</p>
<p>We only have to get 1.5 credits in PE. That's three classes and we have the option of taking all of them through FLVS, which is an online school.</p>
<p>we have it all four years for GPA, but i take it independently pass-fail in the summer... you have to have a reason for doing that though... somehow its worked out i was just taking too many classes all 4 years</p>
<p>YES, I hate Phys. Ed. I mean, regular activities are fine--we can choose from stuff like frisbee and badminton, but every week we have these things called fitness days where you basically run until you collapse from utter exhaustion. And our midterm and final are graded on ability, not effort.</p>
<p>Required PE for 4 years in PA, twice a week. 9th and 10th we had health 3 days a week, too, and it factors into your GPA. But for gym, as long as you get changed, you should get 100. And health was ridiculously easy too.</p>
<p>In our school (US,WA), two semesters are required and we can waive one semester with varsity letter (which is what I'm planning to do :) ).</p>
<p>In most post-Soviet schools, to pass class, ideally, you'd have to meet certain standards equal for all people in almost every conditioning test: running (sprints and long runs) and strength (push-ups, pull-ups, jumps, et cetera).
But failure of class for not meeting some of the norms is rare -- program is not enforced hard.</p>
<p>No PE required for senior year.
But I miss it so much. All those fun games - baseball, soccer, softball, indoor games, ultimate frisbee, etc... Even strength training and weight training were really good lessons! From that, I learnt how to use the equipments (properly) in my local gym.</p>
<p>We even spent couple of classes on disabled ppl sports - we played basketball on our knees, play soccer with blinds over our eyes, etc.. --sounds really immature but it was good fun. A LOT of guys in my class learned respect for the disabled too - (they thought it was gonna be real easy and stupid).</p>
<p>Even health classes were fun - we learnt about sports psycology which was pretty interesting. And also health problems in life such as drugs in sports - i wrote a paper on it. And we learnt about human biology which was pretty easy for me as I took Bio.</p>
<p>I wouldve taken PE this year, but there was course conflict - i had to choose that or physics.. (i like physics).
Yeah i loved PE <3</p>