Gym Waiver

Active students need the option to be exempt from gym, however, their should be an alternative in order to make educators, parents, and students happy. Students who are a part of sports, show choir, and marching band, should be eligible for a gym waiver, especially during the season of their activity. This would mean the students would not have to take gym class, however, simply by being in an activity does not mean students are knowledgeable about healthy lifestyles and exercises. Therefore, students who decide to get a gym waiver should be required to take a seminar class one day a week. This seminar would have multiple different units which would focus on a variety of aspects relating to physical exercise. It would include topics such

These activities provide students with adequate physical fitness especially during the season of their activity. Therefore, adding forty-five minutes to an hour and a half of extra physical exercise is not necessary because those students are already physically fit. Active students usually have hours of practices and rehearsals everyday, taking away time they could use to work on homework, or use as relax time. If students are forced to do even more physical exercise during the school day, it tires them further and simply exhausts them. According to Arthur Allen of Webmd, thirty minutes of exercise a day is enough to prevent diabetes, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure. If a student is in cross country and runs miles a day, on top of gym class, it could endanger their

It is a fact of life that not everyone is born with good athletic skills. The students who do not perform well in gym class feel like outsiders, and spend the entire gym class fearing having to participate in front of people and embarrassing themself. In many schools, students are bullied in gym class due to lack of athletic ability. Linn-Mar students who feel uncomfortable in gym should be allowed the option opt out of gym class. They also would be able to attend the seminar class and learn about physical fitness, therefore on their own time, can adequately perform exercises to remain physically fit in a space where they feel completely comfortable. IF the student would like to request a gym waiver, due to fear of bullying and being uncomfortable in gym class, an additional meeting with their counselor would have to be scheduled to go over why they feel such a way. The meeting with the counselor would be to ensure that students are not simply taking advantage of gym waivers and would have to have a valid argument. By doing this, students overall would feel more comfortable at school due to the fact that they are not being forced into a situation which makes them completely