Physical education is a tradition for high school culture in the U.S. Whether one hates it or loves it, it has made its foundation in our educational process. However, this class seems to just be a tired mandatory practice enforced by government at this point. The government is ensuring the students play a children’s game every day (or at least walk in circles for an hour).
This would be okay if P.E. wasn’t about to be a mandated four-year course. This must be a record for most amount of time about to be wasted. The hours used to burn off a few calories and learn how to interact with others in a physical sense (we burn off calories while walking up to two thousands steps each day in school and we learned how to interact with others in a physical sense in elementary school, while on the playground and in that P.E. class) could be used for studying more mature classes.
Arguable uselessness isn’t this class’s only problem. It’s also very difficult to pass, depending on what teacher/coach you get. You can fail for what is, in their opinion, little participation. Some students can’t get involved enough. If you are the least athletic student in the game, then you aren’t going to have a great effect on the game. There should be a simple key to grading students in P.E. If they are dressed out, in the area they’re supposed to be, and moving around, then they should get an A for the day.
This is the least fact-oriented problem. Maybe it is important to make the students move like cattle for an hour. But there were obese people in the Fifteenth Century. Now that we’ve mastered inorganic farming and mass-produced factory line foods, a third of the world being overweight is inevitable and isn’t even necessarily a bad thing. How about we invest in a class that helps to feed the third of the world that is starving? C.E.: Charitable Education.