Do they even count PE grades in GPA?

Times have changed a lot since I was in high school where PE was a full year requirement for both frosh and soph year, with few if any AP classes available to underclassmen. Now the emphasis seems to be on GPAs above 4.0 with AP classes and taking the SAT earlier in high school.

The SJ Merc reported that applications to UC from California students are up 3% over the prior year and that fewer than 20% of CA applicants to Berkeley are accepted. A student's chances of making it into popular UC schools is less than half of what it was in the 90's.

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Given the epidemic of obesity in American kids I do wonder that any parent would want to diminish any physical activity for their kid(s)? The more the better is my thought.

The spelling is "athletes", not "atheletes".

The PE exemption would ONLY be for student athletes - these are not the kids who are in danger of obesity.

By the way, the High Schools used to give this waiver. Most of the School Board Trustees have kids who were waived from PE in High School because of the waiver.
All of a sudden, PE is so important and using a waiver will be a logistical nightmare??? Use your memory to go back and think how it worked just years ago (not decades)

Where I attended public high school student athletes were in "advanced sports" which was the final period of the day. This was not a regular Physical Education class, but the student athletes were with their respective coaches and training for their competitive sport. The student athletes stayed in this "advanced sports" period all year long, doing off-season sport specific training when not competing. This training typically went from the final period of the day until 5PM, every weekday. (My) competitions were almost always on weekends. So, while these student athletes were technically enrolled in Physical Education, it was a different type of program from the PE program that kids who were not student athletes were enrolled in...always held the final period of the day.

Also, students who were in band arrived a full hour early to school to participate in band practice which was typically in addition to any orchestra or music class that was during regular school hours. Long days if one was a student musician and athlete.

In response to one of the parents in the article above - 9th graders shouldn't be signing up for AP classes nor prepping for the SAT. If parents want to decrease their children's stress loads, they should be protecting them from these academic hurdles that are premature and unnecessary in ninth grade. Learning the importance of diet, exercise and lifestyle are critical to developing healthy habits and student athletes are NOT learning this in their after-school sports.