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To Be Honest...
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Prom: A
Night to
Remember?
by Caroline Bowers
Editor, Golden Fleece
.
year of required to CBS News, a study in
Versus
as a rite of passage for us as high Currently the requirement is and could be beneficial P.E. is enough. 2009 showed that student
schoolers. We gather in one one semester during a student’s to the health and obesity Many high injuries in P.E. classes
place, put on our best clothes, freshman year of school, with issue in the United States. school students from 1997 increased by
and celebrate the end of an era -- additional semester classes being Whether playing Editorials are trying to 150 percent in just 10
that of our high school years. We optional. basketball, lifting weights, represent the take as many years.
view this one night as a defining It has been a complaint by or doing other small viewpoints challenging Some aspects of P.E.
moment in our high school some students and a relief to activities, P.E. classes of individual academic courses can also be embarrassing
experience, one that almost others that physical education provide a way for students as possible, for some students. Fitness
authors and
defines us as a person in that is a class that doesn’t help a lot to get some exercise. which can usually tests like the pacer test,
moment in time. and doesn’t require much effort. According to the centers not those of
make it tough or push-up and sit-up tests
However, prom can never live However, by increasing student of disease control and the Golden
even impossible are easier for students
up to the expectations that we and participation and teaching units prevention, physical Fleece Media to fit in any who are in better athletic
our generation as a whole have set that students are more interested education classes increase Group or its “fun” classes. shape. However, for
for it. in, it can increase participation test scores and students’ staff. So if P.E. were students who aren’t in as
Sure, go to prom, dress up in and be more effective as a means focus. It is proven that mandatory for all great of shape or are more
whatever you choose to wear, and for exercising. exercising pumps blood four years, just overweight, these tests
have fun. I will, too. But don’t Teaching specific units of each to the brain and helps students imagine how hard it can be rather grueling.
take it too seriously. Don’t set sport in P.E. should continue to think more in-depth therefore would be on a student With many other students
outrageous expectations for your provide a way for students to find increasing test scores and focus in who is trying to take as around watching, it’s easy
prom night. what sports they are interested the classroom. many advanced classes as for some of these students
In the long run, it’s not in and the different skill sets that Granted an argument against possible to even fit that to feel embarrassed and be
worth the stress we create for they are gifted with. This can students taking P.E. every year is into his/her schedule. the target for bullying.
ourselves. Enjoy the night and even encourage students to start the fact that it doesn’t help GPAs With a requirement of So overall, P.E. being
its spontaneity. Stop fretting over playing sports on a daily basis as much as an AP class would. four years, P.E. might offered all four years
your hairstyle or snapping the outside of school, helping the However, having a requirement to even have to take the would cause a lot of
perfect Instagram picture for later. average student get even more take this class would do the same place of a more important problems for students who
In 50 years, what do you exercise. thing to everyone’s GPA, and and subsequently more are trying to get in more
want to remember about prom? According to the American it would be a class that doesn’t benefiting class, which challenging classes and
Which will matter more -- your Heart Organization, statistics require much homework. That in could prove harmful. may not be completely
dress or the memories you show almost a 33 percent obesity itself would reduce some stress Issues with liability in beneficial to many
made with your friends? Look rate in children or teenagers. during the evenings for students. schools have occurred as students or the school.
for and treasure the minuscule Schools have already started far as physical education
yet extraordinary moments that
occur in all of the hubbub of
prom night.
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