Think MCPS will comply and bring back the Presidential Fitness Test after today's EO?

[Anonymous]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/well/move/trump-presidential-fitness-test.html

President Trump signed an executive order bringing back the Presidential Fitness Test. I think this is a good thing. PE needs to be more rigorous in schools and more focused on physical fitness and less focused on games. It needs to stop being an automatic A for students. When a kid tries his hardest in Math but still struggles, we don't think twice about giving that kid a C. Why should it be any different in PE? Want to get an A? You better be able to run a mile without stopping and do some pushups and situps. Have medical issues and limitations? Then there can be reasonable accommodations just like kids with IEPs in academic classes.

[Anonymous]

I don't really care, OP. PE is not that important in the grand scheme of things. A physical fitness test isn't going to change that.

[Anonymous]

Who care
? Why can’t your kids do sports and exercise outside school like the rest of ours?

[Anonymous]

We never got rid of the presidential fitness program, we just changed the name and let children with disabilities have different goals.

Like everything Trump does it’s meaningless and just a sound bite.

[Anonymous]

Most kids don’t get outside and do anything at home because they’re inside staring at a screen all day. Then they come to gym class overweight, lazy, and whiny. I don’t mind the physical fitness test but it was rarely utilized to determine a PE grade and the test alone won’t increase the overall exertion level of PE class. So it’s fine, but it doesn’t really “fix” anything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We never got rid of the presidential fitness program, we just changed the name and let children with disabilities have different goals.

Like everything Trump does it’s meaningless and just a sound bite.

+1. My kid has been running the mile twice a year for PE all along.

Frankly, this is a yet another unhealthy obsession with other people's bodies. IDGAF whether somebody plays a sport they enjoy vs does sit-ups and pushups, so long as they're active. I certainly don't care what grade my kid gets in PE. Creating some 80s-movie version of PE is not going to make anybody more fit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: Most kids don’t get outside and do anything at home because they’re inside staring at a screen all day. Then they come to gym class overweight, lazy, and whiny. I don’t mind the physical fitness test but it was rarely utilized to determine a PE grade and the test alone won’t increase the overall exertion level of PE class. So it’s fine, but it doesn’t really “fix” anything.

I don’t know anybody like this.

I also don’t know anybody that can’t pass the lame test.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: Most kids don’t get outside and do anything at home because they’re inside staring at a screen all day. Then they come to gym class overweight, lazy, and whiny. I don’t mind the physical fitness test but it was rarely utilized to determine a PE grade and the test alone won’t increase the overall exertion level of PE class. So it’s fine, but it doesn’t really “fix” anything.

Speak for your own kids, many of ours are in school and private sports.

[Anonymous]

My MCPS middle schooler already does something similar to this. Every quarter except the one that he does health, he has to do a mile run, a flexibility test, some sort of sprint, etc. It is graded for completion but he likes it -- always tries to beat his prior time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/well/move/trump-presidential-fitness-test.html

President Trump signed an executive order bringing back the Presidential Fitness Test. I think this is a good thing. PE needs to be more rigorous in schools and more focused on physical fitness and less focused on games. It needs to stop being an automatic A for students. When a kid tries his hardest in Math but still struggles, we don't think twice about giving that kid a C. Why should it be any different in PE? Want to get an A? You better be able to run a mile without stopping and do some pushups and situps. Have medical issues and limitations? Then there can be reasonable accommodations just like kids with IEPs in academic classes.

Trump appointed a registered sex offender to run the program so MCPS will love it.

[Anonymous]

My kids enjoyed the one mile run in Ms too. I grew up in the 70s/80s and have no recollection of anything like described in PE. I guess it was always optional for districts?

[Anonymous]

Was talking with my spouse about this yesterday. My girlfriends and I walked the mile, and didn't do much of anything else in PE (didn't want to get sweaty - because, HS). Besides, I was an athlete who got exercise every day in my sport. PE was a joke back in my day, and is a joke today - no one cares, and I promise you that PE in schools is not going to change America's obesity problem

[Anonymous]

MCPS should ignore everything the child-raping, adult-raping, sex trafficker Donald Trump says about what to do with children.

[Anonymous]

MCPS already has Iron Eagle fitness test.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: Most kids don’t get outside and do anything at home because they’re inside staring at a screen all day. Then they come to gym class overweight, lazy, and whiny. I don’t mind the physical fitness test but it was rarely utilized to determine a PE grade and the test alone won’t increase the overall exertion level of PE class. So it’s fine, but it doesn’t really “fix” anything.

Uh oh, someone didn't save enough to pay for memory care