| The ProblemTeachers, students, and
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| | district have decided to handle gym in
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| parents at Long Island schools have been
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| | this way, hoping to please groups on both
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| struggling with how to give credit for
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| | sides while addressing the needs of
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| physical education classes. On the one
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| | students.The ProcessMany of the changes
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| hand, many argue that counting gym like
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| | were suggested by parents who signed
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| an academic class can badly affect the
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| | petitions to allow physical education to
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| GPA of students who are strong
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| | be counted on GPAs instead of as a pass /
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| academically but do not do well in gym.
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| | fail mark as it had been in the past.
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| On the other hand, others argue that when
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| | The superintendent and the school boards
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| students know that the gym class does not
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| | of Long Island schools met to consider
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| affect their GPA they do not put the
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| | the proposals from parents to figure out
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| effort and attention into the class in
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| | how to make the physical education
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| order to improve their physical
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| | curriculum the most effective for
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| health.Long Island Schools have decided
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| | students as well as the most standardized
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| to strike a middle ground and allow
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| | in grading.In addition to parental
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| students to choose whether they want it
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| | concern, there was also intense scrutiny
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| to count or not. The decision only
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| | of the new New York State Standards for
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| applies to current sixth through ninth
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| | Physical Education. The argument here
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| graders so it will not affect current
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| | is that the new standards have clear aims
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| graduating high school students. 24 of
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| | and objectives that can be measured and
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| the 60 schools in the Suffolk County
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| | graded like an academic class.
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