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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DD did 9th and 10th grade PE over the summer and was able to connect while on vacation.  It was not time-consuming at all.[/quote]

I don't get the concerns here.  I attended high school in Illinois and PE was mandatory all four years of high school.  It was my favorite class.  And I was studious - 11th out of a class of 750.  I did enroll in the competitive PE because I was a D1 scholarship athlete and actually appreciated the challenge of playing sports to which I was marginally proficient. Good for ego deflation and appreciating the skills of others.  My senior year I enrolled in the PE class which promised always to go outdoors, no matter the weather.  Not sure any school would do this today in a litigation happy environment.  Playing street hockey in a blizzard in the parking lot may sound extreme, but it was incredibly fun, and had none of the pressure I felt in being a state champion in my sport, which, for a poor person like me, was satisfying but grinding.  The school had PE offerings for those who merely wanted exercise or outdoor adventure experiences (there was a rock climbing class).   Even if kids don't feel athletic, they benefit from PE.  At my alumni gatherings, even the non-athletic types look fondly on PE. As an aside, it was also a great place for the school's best athletes to lead in a campaign against bullying.  The school knew its stuff in that regard.  A big component of my grade was sportsmanship and treating everyone well.  [/quote]

No one is anti PE, there just isn’t room for everything in the schedule. My kid wants band, and computer science, and Latin. There’s no room. [/quote]+1 the vast majority of kids who take it in the summer do so because they want to free up their schedule to take electives. Freshman year you only get 1 elective due to the PE requirement. Kids who want to take Band/orchestra or chorus AND want to do computer science or an art(or any other elective) are forced to wait until their junior year thus not allowing them to progress through the series of the elective.[/quote]

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