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[quote=Anonymous]Back when I was a student in MCPS, for PE we'd be split off into teams based on last name and would rotate between different team sports for a certain period time.  What comes to mind was softball, volleyball, street hockey, basketball, soccer, touch or flag football, field hockey, etc.  As well as other activities such as tennis and badminton.  These weren't all in the same year and some of them might've been in high school.

But when I ask what my kids what they do in PE class nowadays it sounds different.  For example in elementary school they had a session where they did pickleball, which might be understandable given how it's grown in popularity.  But most of the other things don't seem as traditional or just different from when I was growing up.

Is this the same at all MCPS schools and every school does the same activities?  And it's just times are different now and kids do different activities now.  Or do PE teachers get to decide what specific activities students do?  For example there were these posts a while back where someone mentioned at Julius West they have a unit to teach bike riding:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1113232.page
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1201516.page

So that's probably something unique that other schools don't do.  And are there still some schools that might still offer the type of rotation between the type of activities that we used to do in PE a while back?

Part of the reason I ask is that my kids' elementary school didn't seem to have a strong presence in local sports that we knew of.  So I'm wondering if schools try to cater the activities students do during PE.[/quote]

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