<p>"
Same can be said for math skills though. Again, I’m not saying it should be a part of the GPA, just saying it’s nice to see some kids get a chance to do well in something, even if it’s not in the classroom."</p>
<p>I don’t think there is any fear that kids who perform well athletically won’t get their fair share of recognition in this world. They’re written up in sports sections of papers, announced at banquets, and given athletic scholarships. Society does more than enough to highlight them!</p>
<p>"They’re written up in sports sections of papers, announced at banquets, and given athletic scholarships. Society does more than enough to highlight them! "</p>
<p>Hmmm…okay. I guess it all balances out then. Maybe top four percent GPA of a high school gets to go to a “good” college, top four percent of “athletes” get “recognition”, a banquet, or a scholarship? Around here, high school is often the end of the road, especially for “athletes”, and VERY few kids get banquets and athletic scholarships… but then again, most kids around here who graduate go to community college.</p>
<p>But seriously; The BEST part of CC is knowing about other communities.</p>
<p>PE should be a REQUIREMENT K-12 every single day. But it never will be. Why? Because we are too concerned about STUPID “standardized tests” and if it doesn’t show up on the test, then it is not important. Just look at the obesity rates and see how they’ve climbed as PE has disappeared. It’s embarassing.</p>
<p>^^perhaps in Iowa, but out on the Left Coast, I am much more concerned about literacy. Approximately 50% of the matriculating Frosh to the Cal State system REQUIRE remediation in English and/or math; at some campuses its 90%. In other words, after 13 years in the “system”, many high school graduates who are accepted into college must repeat high school-level English and math prior to taking college courses. THAT is embarrassing, IMO.</p>
<p>omg ,i just want to dones the health education count gpa.
bcause i got low grade on my transcript.
Also,can sombdy give me some recommendation of cumpter engineering college?
I m preparing for tat.</p>
<p>In Georgia, you are only required one semester of PE and one semester of Health. Everyone takes this freshman year and it is pretty easy. PE actually has written tests every other week and it is not just effort. Mondays were also book work day and we would not do any physical activity that day. My gym teacher was a lot harder then the other gym teachers. We had to run a mile and the other teachers kids were walking a half a mile. </p>
<p>We have four years of math, science, and language arts though. You have to take biology (freshman), chemistry (sophomore), physics (junior), and a science elective (senior) to graduate also. You need three years of social studies to graduate and a year of fine arts too. </p>
<p>Even though you only take a semester of gym, you have requirements that in other states aren’t required. My friends in Florida only need two or three years of science and has to take biology, but not chemistry or physics. I think that is a much bigger deal. At my school, we have a lot of athletes. But some people fail gym because they never dress out which is crazy and you get a lot of B’s.</p>
<p>In younger Ds school, every class was an academic class- papers were due in PE as well as health.
Health was a well taught course IMO and taken in 10th grade.
PE however it was allowed to waive PE if you participated in a school sport, which she did- so she didn’t have to take it- her credits were fulfilled by sports.</p>
<p>If she * hadn’t* had PE waived she would have been hard pressed to get enough college prep classes as they struggled to get 5 classes a day for students let alone 6. ( & had required vocational classes every year)</p>
<p>All classes count in GPA for the high school purposes.</p>
<p>lee, while health almost certainly counts in the GPA your school gives the college, some colleges calculate GPAs again, based on what they consider academic courses.</p>
<p>I think you missed the point: these students have graduated from high school, many with A’s and B’s. The Cal States and UC’s require four years of English for admission, with no grade lower than a C. Assuming teachers weren’t fabricating grades, the students can and do speak English – it is just not at the level required for college level work. </p>
<p>Now, back to the policy discussion of PE… Is it better to have students take four years of PE, or spend those resources trying to upgrade math and English skills so the students can thrive in college (and the state doesn’t have to pay for remediation)? </p>
<p>fwiw: health counts as an academic class in our Calif HS gpa, but it is excluded for admissions purposes from the instate public colleges.</p>
<p>lee, many colleges also take art and music classes out of their private gpa calculations; some consider academic core courses only.</p>
<p>At the high school my sons attended, students had to take one year of health (2 semesters), one year of gym (2 semesters) and one year of fine arts (2 semesters of any art or music) with all counted in the gpa.</p>
<p>At our public hs here in CA, one can earn an “A” in PE (required as a year course for both freshmen and sophomores) for simply dressing out, showing up and minimally “participating,” (as in, ambling around the track as slowly as possible while chatting - what a joke). For this reason, I think it ought to be included in the college GPA - talk about separating the wheat from the chaff!</p>