Gym Class

School is a place for students to learn and grow academically. Being athletic has nothing to do with your academic skills therefore P.E. should not count as a grade. If a student is not “athletic enough” for the game that is being played they get points deducted which will lower their GPA. For the students who are athletic and want

A Reason 1: Mental and physical should not be compared, which is one of the factors that affects the overall GPA of students.

Alfie Kohn discussed multiple fabulous points in his article, “Degrading to De-Grading”. The author suggests more effective ways to assess students’ progress other than numerical or letter grades. Kohn goes into detail about why our current grading system is flawed. Grades can cause students to lose interest in learning which causes them to stop taking challenges. If students are not engaged and interested than they are not retaining the information they are being taught. The grading system can also cause students to develop unhealthy competition with one another for instance, “I got a better grade than you!”. Indeed, grades are a wonderful concept, but they tend to be more hurtful than helpful. In some cases, grades can have positive effects on students. For example, setting goals for various assignments, or receiving help where they are struggling. Though, there are alternatives that could make positive changes in the system.

Reporting Live from Wilson Southern Junior High School seventh grade gym class. All of the kids are doing an every other day schedule running laps. Teenage Obesity percentage is eighteen percent and is in increased seven percent in the past five years so this class helps lower it. Eighty percent of the students in school likes gym and twenty percent does not like the gym. Some of the students don’t precipitate. While they were running one of the girls say to her friend “she runs like a gorilla.” One kid was running so fast that he as fast as a cheetah! The whole time he was running he did thirty-five push-ups, more than what is needed, but some kids did not do the pushups right and were using their arms to push themselves up and when the teachers saw that they would write it down on their clipboard. Most of the students were running in groups talking while they ran. The teachers were being very watchful to see who is running and not running. Some of the students did not run at all they just walked. When they split up into the five groups they all ran out to get drinks they were swarming around. When everyone was in there right groups and all setup. One of the seventh girls whispered to the other when they were running “That one girl that’s

I personally do not agree with grades in gym classes affecting students’ grade point averages. I believe that gym class should be strictly for fun. There are many students who are not very athletic. Many females do not enjoy playing sports or running a mile. I do not think it is fair that schools make their students run a full mile, time them on it, and grade them on their times. Certain students are not great runners and the fact that they can fail because they did not finish running a mile in the “right” amount of time is horrible. There is no right amount of time to run a mile. Everybody is different and no two people can run a mile in the same number of seconds. So why are

Did you know? Each course failed in 8th grade increases the odds of non-promotion by 16%. Putting this rule in place adds an extra incentive for students to do well in classes, and that should lower the amount of failing grades. Raising the level of expectation raises the level of grades; higher grades equal better chances of doing well in high school classes. This new rule may result in higher test scores too. Students can be better, if we just push them to do their best. We can make failing grades almost nonexistent. Let’s increase the pride in better grades and strive to do the best that we

Athletics are one of the largest sources of revenue for a college, but tends to come at the cost of student's education. Athletes are preparing to compete at the collegiate level well before time has come to even consider a college. Some high schools have instituted grade point average, GPA, requirements for student participation in athletics. Installing the requirement motivates students to work harder in school. This is positive because it allows for an increase in the athletes' knowledge an opportunity to be successful in both academics and athletics in college.

How Could a pass or fail be determined? It will have to deal with numbers and percentages from Grades that the students receive as a grade. How would the students know what's a pass and what's a fail. How can students set goals for the next time to do better? It would be much easier to determine a students grade by a letter. Competition is a good thing for students, they perform better wanting to get a better grade than others as long as the students is competing in a good way and not cheating. There will all ways be a student better than others. People would want to know a doctor had the highest grade in medical school. or that lawyer had the highest gpa in law school. people wouldn't know that if the doctors only had a pass or fail grading system. Letter grades should not be replaced with pass/fail system ,they are not specific enough to determine a students performance in his or her class. People would have no way in differentiating students with all A's and a "C" student, it would also be easier to correct a letter grade if there's an error.

I think that the kids need to learn how to stay fit. The kids get shortage of exercise during their school day. Therefor the students need to get physical movement during their day. Physical education provides the students with varieties of workouts for the kids. The students love to go to PE because they get to be with their friends and they get learning they need to get about their body. Being mobile is vital to these kids they like active and they would be more alert in class.

To begin, although gym helps many careless students excel and receive A’s, GPAs should not be based on physical fitness. To earn good grades, students should be driven to study and do homework. The problem with phy ed is there’s rarely ever any homework or tests. In addition, grades in

Almost all students in the United States have had that dreaded Physical education class. With all of the hard work done in a regular day for a student, they need to get out energy at some point. I propose that Hudson City Schools should keep the now standing PE program instead of forcing kids to do a sport every year in school because it improves test scores, promotes overall health, and because it includes many different sports instead of just one.

In my opinion I think that P.E is require for every student that steps or is in school. For all ages they should be doing lots of cardio and exercise. These are the reasons why we need P.E.

One reason physical education may not be present is due to the fact that colleges do not require any type of higher level physical education unless directly correlated to a specific major. Being that common core’s main goal is to teach students things that they will be expected to know and use in every field like reading and writing. While reading, writing and critical thinking will be required in most jobs it is unlikely that a high level of physical education will be necessary. It is also hard to create curriculum for students with various health conditions, accidents, and other things of that

First, changing letter grades to pass or fail will eliminate competitiveness, and the will to try harder in school. For example, I am a straight-A student, so if I get an A- or a B+, I will strive to work better. With the pass or fail system, I wouldn’t be able to tell the difference. It would all just be passing. Furthermore, it wouldn’t make students want to

Students GPA and grade should go down because of gym class. Gym is about getting active and trying hard. Students need to dress out everyday they have gym. They also need to participate in the activity we are doing. They need to try hard during fall/spring training. If they don’t do those any three things, they should get less points that day. It is a required class, so it should be counted toward students grade and GPA.