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    smilequeen is offline Diamond level (5000+ posts)
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    Mine do get a letter grade for PE, but effort is the important part. They also take ?tests? on the rules of whatever game or sport they are working on (in middle school). My younget is similar, a big athletic kid. There are things in those fitness tests that he really does well in and others that are harder for him, but they don?t get graded on the fitness tests. That sort of sucks. I think PE is important to develop life long fitness habits?and it has to be enjoyable to become a habit. Making kids feel bad if they can?t do something is counter productive to the real goal of PE.
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    Quote Originally Posted by smilequeen View Post
    I think PE is important to develop life long fitness habits?and it has to be enjoyable to become a habit. Making kids feel bad if they can?t do something is counter productive to the real goal of PE.
    Exactly!! Thank you. Our kids can’t afford gym teacher that discourages the kids from finding an activity they are good at and enjoy. Their health depends on it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by gatorsmom View Post
    Exactly!! Thank you. Our kids can’t afford gym teacher that discourages the kids from finding an activity they are good at and enjoy. Their health depends on it.
    The best PE programs that I've experienced with my kids do just this.

    At my kids' high school, PE for freshmen is the typical PE and every student is required to take it, even if they do sports. But sophmore PE has a focus on fitness activities that non-sporty kids can participate and enjoy for their whole lives through. Stuff like bowling, swimming, hiking, archery. The idea being, the only kids at the high school that have to take sophmore PE are the ones who aren't doing a HS sport so they're hoping to match kids to other sport options.

    The current middle school PE teacher is also leaning into sports the kids can play their whole lives through. They do a yoga unit, a pickleball unit, etc. I think it is smart!

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    My experience is kind of a hybrid. They do get letter grades, but their grade is on the improvement between their starting point and their semester end. So, when my two-sport kid was required to take freshman PE, he slacked off on the starting scores so he could actually "improve" at the end. (He was given a heads-up about this from teammates on the wrestling team - one of the previous years a kid didn't get an A because he didn't improve his already impressive run time enough.)

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    Quote Originally Posted by gatorsmom View Post
    Exactly!! Thank you. Our kids can’t afford gym teacher that discourages the kids from finding an activity they are good at and enjoy. Their health depends on it.
    YES! Honestly, I found that PE is the "Can's" and the "Cannot's". So many students are discouraged from being active due to gym class. They are never good enough and ridiculed because of it. Don't even get me started on the BMI testing done in the hallway in "small groups". Having a child who was always a head taller than their peers is fun. There are times DC stopped eating because their peers laughed at their weight saying they were "too big". In actuality, they were underweight, just significantly taller.

    In high school, DC did an Independent Study for gym and took Karate for three years at a local Dojo..

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kestrel View Post
    My experience is kind of a hybrid. They do get letter grades, but their grade is on the improvement between their starting point and their semester end. So, when my two-sport kid was required to take freshman PE, he slacked off on the starting scores so he could actually "improve" at the end. (He was given a heads-up about this from teammates on the wrestling team - one of the previous years a kid didn't get an A because he didn't improve his already impressive run time enough.)
    Oh that's a super interesting perspective as well!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kestrel View Post
    My experience is kind of a hybrid. They do get letter grades, but their grade is on the improvement between their starting point and their semester end. So, when my two-sport kid was required to take freshman PE, he slacked off on the starting scores so he could actually "improve" at the end. (He was given a heads-up about this from teammates on the wrestling team - one of the previous years a kid didn't get an A because he didn't improve his already impressive run time enough.)
    This is what I was expecting. And I could totally see DS slacking off on purpose

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kestrel View Post
    My experience is kind of a hybrid. They do get letter grades, but their grade is on the improvement between their starting point and their semester end. So, when my two-sport kid was required to take freshman PE, he slacked off on the starting scores so he could actually "improve" at the end. (He was given a heads-up about this from teammates on the wrestling team - one of the previous years a kid didn't get an A because he didn't improve his already impressive run time enough.)
    DS had the same experience. He met all the final standards on the first assessment. DH told DS to go east on the first assessment so his final score was improved.


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    Rereading this post triggered another memory of DC's physical education experience... One teacher wanted all the kids to wear a step tracker all the time to monitor their steps. This was at an alternative school. I pushed back on that one! DC has enough anxiety without having to worry about their steps 24/7. I don't even think I ever actually complained to the teacher. DC told the teacher that they refused to participate. Others must have also refused, because the requirement disappeared.

    Either that or the school realized how expensive it would be to issue step trackers to the entire student body...

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