Here's one governor that thinks that he has a plan for everything. He's so morose that he appears dressed in black like some kind of sunday school preacher.
Maybe he sees himself as some kind of "Crist-like" figure.
My school has started to let you choose a sport for games, before if you were a girl you had to play netball, hocky and rounders and for the boys it was rugby and cricket. But now there are around 10 different things to choose from including aerobics where the school pays for an aerobics class once a week. Only a few of the sports are gender specific. I do fives which is great fun because we are in a special hut at the far corner of the field and none of the teachers can see us to tell us off for things like wrong kit and sitting around chatting to people( There is a fives coach but he doesn't care). Fives is quite an unknown game which is similar to squash except you have a glove instead of a raquet and there are lots of weird rules. I'm the only girl that plays it which suits me fine, its the sport nerdy boys play who are bad at other sports and i get a break from dealing with girls and having to act right.
Make the school day longer if they need more PE. In fact I'd make it last in the day.
Are there some community projects that need doing, for kids to burn calories?
The schools need to silence homophobia as surely as they need to silence aspergerphobia. It is called preparation for the real world.
My place of work would stand for neither. Either would be a quick way to be disciplined or fired.
Don't think we are doing this just for the victims. The bullies need to learn a lesson before they reach the Real World where, depending on the place of work, they might not be tolerated.
I only wish the rest of society treated one of my former colleagues so well, maybe she wouldn't have emigrated to Seattle. Emigrated. Sounds like the 1930s with respect to Nazi Germany.
How about a group walk?
In my experience, Aspie works as well as homosexuality to attract gay slurs in gym class.
There are ways around the PE requirement if you are "special needs" or AS, which my daughter is. All it took in SC was a letter from her doctor (shrink). I suppose it would be harder if you didn't have a dx, I don't know.
A friend, who's daughter is bi-polar, was able to satisfy the PE requirement by having her daughter take outside yoga classes.
My favorite irony on this is that PE is a cesspool of gay-bashing, fag-calling and general homophobia training. Maybe the gay (and closeted) governor of Florida has forgotten that since his days in PE.
Max is right on target on this one. I am a teacher, and we used to have a p.e. teacher (I'm ashamed to say) who would taunt his students into greater performance by refering to his lagging students as "Ladies" or "Girls." Thankfully, he has moved on, but the fact remains that he was denigrating females as weak or second rate, and reinforcing to any young men that might be struggling with their identities, sexual or otherwise, negative stereotypes about men with feminine mannerisms, etc.
Although I see the need for more physical activity in schools, there has to be a way to offer classes that don't make our students feel like they're walking the gauntlet every day.
My favorite irony on this is that PE is a cesspool of gay-bashing, fag-calling and general homophobia training. Maybe the gay (and closeted) governor of Florida has forgotten that since his days in PE.
I don't know about the governor's sexuality either way for sure. Even though he's a republican (and I usually hate all things GOP!) I really like this guy, and hope he has some plan to make p.e. more fair and accessible, if he's going to force more on our kids.