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I would definitely cut PE.

Most of it amounts to moving around for 30 min and you get graded on wether you brought a change of clothes.

Thats not to say PE couldn't be useful. Physical fitness was never my strong suit in highschool and PE did nothing to change that.

After making a good salary in a startup, I worked with a personal trainer and learned about muscle hypertrophy, starting strength and general strategies for conditioning along with diet with particular goals. Maybe if we taught that stuff in PE, it would be worth keeping around.



My PE class was actually contained a fair amount of that, just wildly out of date now. Just burning off energy/stress is probably a good thing for teenagers though ...


Exercise is good for your brain, cutting PE will make most kids learn less even if the material you learn there isn't valuable.




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