Florida kids paid $1 to skip gym

[twixmix0303]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11389918/?GT1=7756

You better believe it.

[[jonrev]]

HA!

[w00dland]

This is dumb, who wants to skip GYM?

Do you realize how much money this guy could have made if he was a math teacher?

[FRD714]

WTF!

They also banned myspace in Florida schools.

[twixmix0303]

Do you realize how much money this guy could have made if he was a math teacher?

That explains why he's a gym teacher.

[rct2wizard360]

WTF!

They also banned myspace in Florida schools.

MySpace is banned on a lot of school computers with the program BESS.
School puts categories in of stuff they dont wan't you doing, BESS blocks every website that has it.

[DejaVuGurl1203]

Dude, I'll do ANYTHING to skip gym. I absolutely hate it.

[punkbunny24242]

All we had to do was be in choir and then gym was not required. Great nap class to take

I believe this changed after my graduating year of '98 and now gym is required.

[[jonrev]]

WTF!

They also banned myspace in Florida schools.

MySpace is banned on a lot of school computers with the program BESS.
School puts categories in of stuff they dont wan't you doing, BESS blocks every website that has it.

My school has it.

[Trailblazer Tony]

Dude, I'll do ANYTHING to skip gym. I absolutely hate it.

Diddo, I'm not to atheletic so GYM was not fun for me. And then, even when there was a sport that i played (tennis), there were to many jerks screwing around to even get a serious game going. I definitely would have forked over a dollar a day.

[CoasterDave316]

This is dumb, who wants to skip GYM?

I used to think this as well, when I saw alot of people always sitting out.

Then during my senior year, I had Gym at like 7:05 a.m. and suddenly I had no desire to do anything in gym either.

Do you realize how much money this guy could have made if he was a math teacher?

I would have gladly paid thousands to never have to walk into the class room lol.

[EagleFan344]

7:05 AM!???!!

I dont even start school til 10:25.

[Aero737]

In the state of Illinois, it is required to take 3.5 years of PE, and .5 year of health in order to graduate.

[Do I Know You]

Poor souls. I get to skip gym for free

[mschulz5]

I'm in a fall and spring varsity sport, so I don't have to take it either.

[w00dland]

Wow, in Wisconsin we need 1.5 credits of gym and .5 credits of health to graduate.

We don't have the resources (lockers, gym teachers) to host that many kids in gym each semester.

[Trailblazer Tony]

In the state of Illinois, it is required to take 3.5 years of PE, and .5 year of health in order to graduate.

I forgot about that. The only way to get out of it in our school is if you are in a sport and you can leave gym for a study hall, I forgot what it was called though.

[Do I Know You]

In the state of Illinois, it is required to take 3.5 years of PE, and .5 year of health in order to graduate.

That's the only thing about Florida schools that I think is better than Illinois ones. Here we're only required to take one semester of gym, unless you're in IB, in which case you're completely exempt.

[FRD714]

I dont even have to take gym a full year next year and I am anyway.

[twixmix0303]

In the state of Illinois, it is required to take 3.5 years of PE, and .5 year of health in order to graduate.

I forgot about that. The only way to get out of it in our school is if you are in a sport and you can leave gym for a study hall, I forgot what it was called though.

Our nazi school just refers to it as "exemption." I actually like our P.E. program, although they're not tough enough. You have to do "requirements" each semester, the requirements are basically cardiovascular exercises (i.e. running, basketball, aerobics, mountain bikes, stationary bikes) and weight room. The thing I don't like about it is that how well you perform in a fitness test determines how many requirements you have to complete. Basically, the more situps you can do, the less running you have to do. It makes no sense, people should be running on the track 5 days a week and hitting their target heart rate, whether or not they can do 25 or 65 situps a minute. I also love first period gym, running in the morning really wakes me up. I'm joining Gold's this summer so that I can keep on running while school's not in session.

[[jonrev]]

^HAHA Nazi School.
I hate the requirement system they do.

[Trailblazer Tony]

Exemption--That's the word. Boy, that's a lame word to forget.

[Mr. SFGAm]

I got lucky, in Michigan(the U.P. ) we were only required to take .5 of gym, and .5 of health to graduate.

Like others have said, I would have gladly forked out $$ to skip algebra, geometry, and even biology classes. The only H.S. class that ever came in handy for me was Chem.

[DejaVuGurl1203]

Next year I am taking personal wellness, where writing takes place, and gym is only 2 or 3 days a week. I was hoping to get out gym period by taking a career class, but NO, no one accepted me.

[EagleFan344]

In the state of Illinois, it is required to take 3.5 years of PE, and .5 year of health in order to graduate.

Not if you exempt it, I only took one semester of PE.

And I didnt have a medical excuse or nothing, I just didnt want the extra class.