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not giving credit for sports
My daughter is a high school freshman this year, and as far as I can tell sport teams count as the PE class so they get credit but it's in lieu of regular PE. When their sport isn't playing, they have to do regular PE stuff or lift weights. They get out of class for games/meets but they have to make up the work and maintain at least a "C" average with no unsatisfactory citizenship grade.
We got graded on PE et al in high school, but it's not like UK schools have GPAs. So it totally didn't count outside the school.
In high school, we got graded for gym, and it counted for "credit" insofaras we had to pass four full years of it in order to graduate, but it wasn't counted into our GPA. Also, kids who were on sports teams still had to take gym, which I thought was unfair, since I probably would have enjoyed gym a lot more and learned a lot more if the varsity kids weren't there.
I got graded on gym in high school, and it did factor into my GPA.
Me, too, and boy was I pissed about it--my high school was the only one in town (out of five schools, including our brother school) that factored gym grades into the GPA.
We had gym as a graded class, too. The wording made me think that's not what the kid was talking about though. I haven't seen the story so I may not have all the context.
Sean, that's an interesting idea. It almost makes me want to watch again to see if that'd work within the timeline we've been shown so far.
Suddenly my iPod is being all thematic by playing Kate Bush's "Breathing".
In college we got a credit for each academic class. For something like a phys ed class I think we would get a quarter credit with up to eight quarter credits counting toward the 32 credit requirement. So it meant something, but not much.
Sean -- See, I think that's what we're supposed to suspect. But I'm convinced the gossip about the mysterious person who moved in and paid for a house in cash is about Hawkins. All the rest of it is basically dependent on that, but on the second viewing that line just leapt out at me as being a plot point masked as casual chatter.
Whoever bought the house had a wife, so the two bits of supporting evidence I'm waiting for are 1) for her to turn up, and 2) any encounter between Jake and Hawkins.
Me, too, and boy was I pissed about itKathy is me. I believe our HS requirement was 4 semesters, so at least after 10th grade I was done. I think I've blocked most of it out.
We had to take a year of PE in high school. Sucked. If we'd had some choice as to what we wanted to do (and had a pool) I wouldn't have minded. But it is really cruel to make budding teens run laps in 85 F and sunny and not give them time or facilities to shower! Way to go building appreciation of anything athletic and encourage stink-born mocking by their peers.
Aaaand I back on shots twice daily. Figured it was coming.
I had to take gym the whole time, I'm pretty sure, with a swimming requirement, which actually sucked, due to the 80s hair.
Oh, lord, I'm glad we didn't have a swimming pool. I shudder at the thought. I think our PE was pass/fail or something. It didn't figure into our GPA, in any case.