PE classes

   I'm not actually liking anything I said about P.E. before (but it is all still there underneath the page break). Instead, I think students should not have a P.E. class but should have sports that are practiced for a few hours on Saturday, either at the varsity or JV level.

I must say I am not terribly interested in having the students compete with other schools though. I read an article about Finnish kids and why they are so smart, and it looks like Finnish schools take a lot of the bells and whistles out of school, including sports teams. I want sports teams, but I'm okay with not having them compete and possibly miss school or scheduled time.




Each fall, the student is in a general physical education course that has many units throughout their school career. Each spring, the student picks a sport or activity in which to participate the entire semester. This can cause problems with sports' seasons, but this is for a PE class, so that does not particularly bother me.

I'm also thinking that maybe the PE classes should instead be structured like I am structuring the arts classes (http://educatorjasmine.blogspot.com/2012/03/arts.html) in that high school students should get to pick each semester, middle school students get units in the fall and pick in the spring, and elementary kids have units all the time. If this were the case, I'd have to offer many more of the unit sports as semester sports, too.

The following sports/activities can be offered: 

First semester: units

Health

Emergency Care

Survival skills

Swimming

Bowling

Golf

Climbing

Ice-skating

Roller blading

Boot camp

Triathlon

Gymnastics

Basketball

Volleyball

Soccer

Football

Weight training

Hiking

Hip-hop

Yoga

Zumba

Tennis

Horse riding

Archery

Cooperative games, trust games, and initiative activities

Cricket

Lacrosse

Basic Diving

Track and Field

Self defense

Badminton

Softball

Ultimate Frisbee

Zipline

Second semester: pick one

Swimming

Hockey

Golf

Jiu-jitsu

Karate

Ice-skating

Boot camp

Triathlon

Gymnastics

Basketball

Volleyball

Soccer

Football

Weight training

Hip-hop

Yoga

Zumba

Tennis

Horse riding

Archery

Circus arts

Lacrosse

Ballet

Lifeguard training

Diving

Track and Field

Wrestling

Social dance

Badminton

Tap dance

Softball

Ultimate Frisbee

Jazz dance

Modern dance