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So, you take a kid who excels in academics but is overweight (one of the six criteria they need to pass) and you force them to continue to take PE, instead of other academically oriented classes. Also, the highlighting this kid as a "loser" to their peers, which only makes existing problems worse.
Even the measurement criteria doesn't make any sense at all. If the objective is to promote healthy long term lives, why not have the kids be certified that they make certain levels of physical effort (such as walking a couple of miles twice per week), as opposed to pushups or bodymass (a convoluted way of doing height/weight charts) measurements?
Simply a disgrace, and those legislators who advocated this requirement didn't think it through (to be charitable).
Yes, but in addition to other academic classes not in lieu of. PE used to be a standard course and SAT scores were higher back then.
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