No Surprize wrote:StevePerryHair wrote:No Surprize wrote:StevePerryHair wrote:Hmmm..I don't know! We had big open showers too, but the only time they MADE us shower was before we got in their swimming pool for gym class. So we all showered with our swimsuits on!
They don't require that at my kids schools I don't think. They barely have PE by high school level here in FL. One semester the whole 4 years, and some is classroom time.
Sad, isn't it? (only having one semester of PE)
They cannot make your kid shower, period! Now they might want to bring a washcloth and rinse off a little in the sink to get the funk off. I never had a problem with showering, but then gain I played sports throughout school from jr. high on and it was just part of it.
The thing that bugs me about FL PE it defeats the entire purpose of what PE was created for! It's to give the kids excersize during their school day, I would guess to help their brains too. So if you are only doing it 1 semester in high school, why bother at all!! They've turned it into almost like a health class now instead. My daughter is doing hers now, and it's with virtual school. So it's not even during school. I'm not concerned about my kids at all. They are very active and get plenty of exercise and don't need it. What about those kids who can't or don't though?
I'm sure part of the reason it's being cut is because academics have grown so much since we were in school. There is just no room for PE in their schedules. So theyre leaving it up to parents to keep their kids active. And there are more organized sports today that 25-30 years ago. I can't believe the curriculum offered to high school kids today! Their course books looks college level! They have so many options and classes they can take, it's unreal! Mine was so simple in comparison in the 80's. We only had basic courses.
You can thank the FCAT for this bullshit. So many overweight obese kids now who sit on their ass playing video games while eating a 12 pack of doughnuts, texting24/7 like the end of the world is happening. They should go back to the way school use to be, being able to take a vocational course to learn a trade, having to take PE to keep in some semblance of shape doing jumping jacks, sit-ups, push-up, running, if nothing else for your health. Like your kids, mine keeps his self in shape taking Aikido 3 times a week over this summer, running to get ready for football(which they started practicing 2 weeks ago). I told him also he could just take the virtual PE course online but he declined that notion after he found out it was 30 something weeks of it.
While I do have some issues with the FCAT and the way things are taught, I don't really blame that for the PE issue. Our elementary school, which are the years the FCAT is most prominent, still have PE classes. Normal, regular, go outside and do physical things, PE. So at an elementary level, in Orange County, they are still getting their PE.
By high school, most kids are done with the FCAT by 10th grade.
I talked to my daughter's virtual teacher the other day, and she told me that course can be done within 6 weeks, if the child keeps up and does the work. My daughter was getting lazy with it, so we had to work on a plan to get her done with it. She's still on that plan. My daughter is a great student, but she needs something more structured and virtual school is really not for her I can see!
It's too easy to get distracted at home. But by doing it virtually, she has more room for academic classes.
These kids have SO many different sciences, history/geography classes, psych, maths, etc to choose from, they can almost do much of their college in high school these days, if they work hard enough. It was not like that when we were in school.
In our county there are still options for trade/tech schools. Orange county has a tech school. I'm not sure how that works, since my kids are not going that direction. But that does exist.
I really see it as a partially parental issue if kids are getting heavy and sitting in front of a tv. My kids enjoy their video games, and aren't super athletes by any means. 2 of them are not really the athletic types. But they are in marching band, and it's treated like boot camp at practices, so I know they are getting their work outs. My daughter will get on the treadmill on her own doing at times, when she feels like she's being too much of a lump.
And my kids eat. Yet none of them are obese. I really think a lot of that is diet and parents teaching their kids bad eating habits. Not the demise of PE!!!
I think that PE should be an elective in high school, if it's not going to be mandatory. So that the kids that need/want it, can have it!
Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 8:15 am
First of all, too early, and second, 23 stinking minutes to get 6 year old's to eat their lunch? That's why I pack my kids' lunches because how the hell are the "hot lunch" kids supposed to have time to eat like a normal human being without cramming their lunch down their throats? It's ridiculous.