Gym Class Not Worthy of a Grade
18% of high school kids are obese and this figure continues to grow. How are they ever going to earn a satisfactory GPA, if they can't participate in gym? Most gym classes grade people on the amount of pushups or sit-ups they can do. If someone misses school for a couple of weeks, they are required to run 8 laps each day just to make up for their absence. This is ridiculous and very unfair for many students. For these reasons, phy ed grades should not affect a high school student’s GPA. 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
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Therefore, they need to do more homework and tests than all the other students. Handicapped people can’t engage with everyone else in phy ed, so they can get bored and may not enjoy it. Some gym teachers make the disabled do laps around the track, while everyone else is having fun playing a team sport. Thus, Phy Ed class should be graded on only how hard a person tries, so it allows every person a chance of achieving an A. Gym teachers should not grade kids on their physical fitness at all. Last, phy ed should just be a pass or fail class. Many colleges don't look at the high school gym grade, so why have it count towards GPA? Grades in every other class are about how well a student studies and understands a subject, except for gym class. Since there are rarely tests or quizzes, it should not be graded at all. Gym class may help with childhood obesity, but should be a class where students have the choice to do whatever they feel like, in terms of physical activity. If gym was this type of class, it may encourage students to be more active, which ultimately should be the
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
Gym grades should not be considered in a student’s GPA because multiple factors control how well you do. Heredity plays a huge factor. You are born with bountiful athletic talent the same way you are born with brown eyes or blond hair. It is just physically improbable for some students, who have no part in controlling their genes, to reach the high benchmarks set for Gym. Similarly, experience can also affect a student’s abilities. The person who has been playing soccer since they could walk and the person who
Purpose: To convince the audience that, a grade of gym should not be counted, as it might affect the overall grade for the majority of students.
On the other hand some may argue if it is or not fair to other students for athletes to not have to take a P.E. class. Many might think it would be giving special treatment to athletes and discrimination against those who lack athletic ability (Barrientos). Billy Martin, a gym teacher and boys varsity basketball coach said that “Gym teaches students how to become physically fit and make choices to stay that way for life.(Cox)” However schools can conduct a policy that says how much work and effort is put into their sport and how students
Historically, letter grades have served as a tool to rate educational intelligence. By looking at the progression of a student’s grades over time, people are able to determine whether or not the students are developing skills in certain areas. Using a one letter grade to determine progress has received many critiques as a common system used in America’s education. Critics claim letter grades cause students motivation and creativity to decrease because grades shift students focus from learning the material to obtaining a good grade.
First of all, athletes could get injured in gym class. 150% of athletes get injured and are not able to play the sports they love, just because of gym. Therefore athletes could perhaps run into something and get a concussion, which could also lead into not being able to come to school. Education classes outweigh the risks “ being healthy and underweight does not have to hurt”. You would not want to be hurt would you.
At one time, the American physical education programs were producing strong bodied and strong willed children. The common gymnasium was no less than an arena for students to release pent-up energy and to display their physical abilities. High schools were churning out more top-notch athletes than colleges knew what to do with and the gym soon turned into the Olympics for some. America was a force to be reckoned with and it made sure the rest of the world felt the strength of its young people. However, America is now in the worst physical shape it has ever been in and things seems to be getting worse for the future generations. Physical health has taken a backseat when it comes to higher education in recent years. With many middle schools and high schools cutting physical education programs due to a lack of funding and a greater focus on academic
Physical education classes are not enjoyed by all, in fact, some students do their best to get out of the class each day, but without this class, students would sit in school for seven hours a day with the only exercise being walking from class to class. While changing clothes and possibly getting sweaty may not seem productive for students who have spent an hour doing their hair, or feel awkward changing in front of others, this class provides positive ways of fighting obesity, releasing energy, retaining more academically, and learning discipline. Thus, students should be required to take physical education courses in high school.
Many students are affected by having to take a pe course every year. But it's very healthy to get some type of exercise each day and eat right. It shows that 33% obesity shows in children, according to the American Heart Organization. Also a new study released by the Global Burden of Disease lists the ten countries with the highest rate of obesity. America weighs in at number one! That is why PE class should be required because who wants to live
S. Surgeon General has declared childhood obesity to be an “epidemic” with significant adverse health consequences, including vascular disease and Type 2 diabetes that significantly raise health care costs for youth.” (The Impact of Physical Education 3) “The U.S. Surgeon General attributes the rise in childhood obesity, in part to, school cutbacks in Physical Education (PE), and urges all school systems to mandate daily PE that last at least one hundred and fifty minutes per week for elementary schoolchildren.” (The Impact of Physical Education 3) Research shows exercise aids children in maintaining a healthy body weight, strong and healthy muscles, strong bones and joints, improves sleep, school attendance is improved, self-esteem is better, and they are less likely to develop anxiety and depression. Those are just a few benefits of physical activity. Schools require subjects such as Math, Science, English, and Social Studies in order for children to graduate. Therefore, physical education should be a required course. Not only will adding physical education requirements help children physically but also, studies show that exercise helps with brain stimulation, which will help with test score and understanding in the classroom. Physical education will not only help with obesity but also improve some other problems schools deal with because of obese
I drag myself to the gym several times a week. The drive to Healthbridge is agonizing because most of time, especially in bone chilling weather and when I’m working thirty hours a week on top of school, I rather be curled up in bed reading or catching up on my latest Netflix addiction Shameless. But exercising is important, and I try to squeeze in a good workout in between the several other things sucking up my time. I’m a biomedical science major; I understand the science behind why exercise is good for the body, but I also have the common sense to understand that the way physical education is taught is not intense enough for students to benefit. For example, today we pulled each other around the gym on towel. . .what are the students getting
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
Physical education should be a fun class, but fun does not have to mean chaos. I believe in a structure that will allow the students to have fun in a safe way. My lesson plans will be structured so that students are constantly engaged in physical activity. I feel that if I can keep students moving and learning, then the chances of misbehavior will decrease. In elementary school I feel that Instant Activities should be used to get students moving when they get into my class. High school is a little different. I feel that students at the secondary school level should be introduced physical fitness activities that will help keep them in shape later on in life.
Effort! This one word is the difference between getting a A, and getting an F. All classes in school require effort, but if class did not count towards your GPA, would students put effort into it? Gym class is part of the GPA and it should stay that way. Gym or physical education, allows a break from sitting down all day in school to stretch and exercise. No one needs to be a superstar athlete to succeed in Gym, all they need to do is show effort.
“Physical education hopes to accomplish, to engage all students, not just the athlete elite, in fun activities that will instill a lifelong commitment to fitness.” (Johnson, 264). Physical education in the classroom can be a vital steeping stone to the way that teenagers think about fitness. Lifelong fitness is something that everyone should be guaranteed, it mainly depends on the experience that a teenager has. Like many other subjects in school, the