A few days ago
Cameron S

What are the high school gym laws?

Can anyone tell me what the laws are for school gym classes? I have a friend in Arizona that is not required to take a gym class while I, in Pennsylvania, am required. My principal tells me that all schools are required to make all students take a gym class and that this is a national law. I obviously think that’s bull. I would assume that these laws differentiate between states but does anyone know of a site that has a list of them or something such as that? Thanks. =)

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A few days ago
DrIG

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I do not know of any national law requiring physical education.

According to the Tenth Amendment to our Constitution education is a residual power of the states.

If Pennsylvania does require physical education then there is nothing that you can do about it short of not getting a high school diploma or dropping out of school. It is no big deal to take physical education classes.

Sometimes the federal government withdraws funding to a school district or to a state if they do not abide by the terms of the grant. It may be that your school district has received funding for physical education that might require as one of the conditions for students to take physical education. I do not know this as a fact but this might be interpreted by some as a federal mandate.

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A few days ago
FALL
Each state has it’s own requirements but not all districts comply with the law. Here is an article on California…

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/06/08/BAG46JAKDG1.DTL&type=printable

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5 years ago
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The most effective man or woman who might inform you for definite is anybody worried in both municipal legislation or state legislation. Start along with your town corridor and ask that query – or ask it of your neighborhood university board. They could absolutely recognise. It sounds to me somewhat overboard to require center fee screens – specially in the event that they have got to be bought from the instructor!!!!!
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A few days ago
KC Desert
The laws vary from state to state.
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