For PE Credit next year, DS2 (9th grade) needs to either take PE or Weightlifting (or Dance). He's deciding between PE and Weightlifting. He's a skinny guy--built like a cross country runner. In fact I encouraged him to try out cross country! But I was unsuccessful. I was thinking weight training would be a good skill to have and that's what he is currently signed up for. DH thinks I'm crazy and that weight class for a sub 100lb boy would be socially devastating. I admittedly know nothing about being a skinny boy, lol! I'm just thinking in terms of skills that could be useful in later life and DS2 thought it sounded good too.
What class would you enroll your child in? Am I silly to think that this kind of body shaming no longer exists in schools like it did when DH was a skinny boy decades ago? DS2 has attended the same small school since K and is extremely (perhaps even overly) confident.
WWYD?