Are you kidding? With obesity rates the way they are today
these children should be required to have PE every year for
the full year k-12 with no exceptions!!! Studies are showing
that today's children are not expected to outlive their
parents and that elementary school children have the arteries
of middle-aged people!!! It is not too much. It is not
enough.

On 10/28/08, Daniel Hanson wrote:
> Hello, fellow high school teachers!
>
> I was curious. I found out yesterday that the high schools
> in the school district where I work require students to
> have 40 credits of P.E. (10 credits = 1 year course). Is
> that common?
>
> When I was in high school and when my siblings attended
> school in the area, we only were required to take 2 years
> of P.E. to graduate from high school.
>
> Does this sound like too much?
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Daniel Hanson
> High School Spanish Instructor
> Atwater, California, USA

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