Getting PE credit for skating (or other sports)

[Terri C]

I had a good conversation with some of the skating parents at my rink/club the last couple of days regarding kids getting PE credit for their training time on the ice.
With the local schools here and our rink, once school starts, the high school kids can only skate for a hour and a half at the most in the afternoon. Our rink is piloting morning ice for the month of September to see if there are adequate numbers. Morning ice has been tried in the past and was not successful in terms of numbers.

So what parts of the country allow young athetes to transfer their PE credits to their sports outside of school (skating, swimming, etc)? How does one go about trying to make it happen?

[emkayy]

My private school does, and we go through the PE director. It's technically called PE Independent Study or something along those lines, and as long as we do said activity for 5 days a week for at least 30 minutes we get credit. I'm in the midwest by the way. I don't think my local public school would allow it however... it would take a LOT of convincing and even then I don't know. Oh, and I just talked to both the admissions office and my advisor about it and they directed me to the head of the PE department.

[dbny]

Not a ghost of a chance in NYC, although those bozos offered billiards for gym credit :frus:.

[Mrs Redboots]

There's a pilot scheme running in the UK, I believe, but if it takes off, it would only apply to certain schools - you would have to send your child to a particular school that specialised in sports, and it would then be easy enough to arrange, and might even include transport from the rink back to school if enough kids were skaters!

[Skittl1321]

In Austin (TX) it was up to the individual school as to what they would allow early release/credit for. I knew some dancers and gymnasts who were able to get it- and others who weren't. I think it depended on the quality of the student, the amount/seriousness of the activity, and the persistence of the parent.

[jskater49]

I asked about it at our other school and didn't get very far. They are not open to it at all.

j

[luckeylasvegas]

My DD has just started a new virtual school here in Las Vegas called Connections Academy. She does her lessons at home with me and on the computer and she speaks to her teacher every other Monday, or when ever she has a problem. Her skating is for credit but DD must log her time for the week along with jump roping, stretching, amd strength training. :yum: DD is in heaven and sharing the ice with 3 girls at 8:30 in the morning is sooooo much better than 6:00 AM !

www.connectionsacademy.com

[sk8tmum]

It can be done in Canada, at least in Ontario, but not as a PE credit ... they put it under cooperative education, you have to be a high-peformance athlete, and it has to be approved. The issue being that the PE curriculum isn't just being athletic and training, there's also health stuff (i.e. sex ed, nutrition), plus knowledge about rules and regs of a variety of sports, etc, measures a wide range of physical abilities. And they do projects related to PE, presentations ...

[SpaMama]

I live in a Dallas suburb, and our district offers it in a couple of different ways. Its called external PE. To not do PE at school, you must be doing at least 10 hours of your sport a week (limited to sports like skating, dancing, horseback riding, karate, etc, not team sports like baseball, etc). If you are doing 15 hours of said sport, you can get out of school 1 period early. Our principal is actually allowing my DD to get out early with 10 hours, because our rink's skating schedule is such that she can't get 10 hours in without getting their early, hockey takes over after 5 or so. It has been great!

Spamama

[4rkidz]

It can be done in Canada, at least in Ontario, but not as a PE credit ... they put it under cooperative education, you have to be a high-peformance athlete, and it has to be approved. The issue being that the PE curriculum isn't just being athletic and training, there's also health stuff (i.e. sex ed, nutrition), plus knowledge about rules and regs of a variety of sports, etc, measures a wide range of physical abilities. And they do projects related to PE, presentations ...

Not necessarily - my daughter is a national athlete and I tried for that credit but her school - school board was not interested.. however I'm aware that another school board did allow such credits with sectional/provincial level skaters - so depends which school!

[littlerain]

I know people who have gotten credit for tennis or ballet at my high school (in a suburb of Chicago) but the girl who got credit for ballet spent half her day at Julliard, and the two guys who got credit for tennis competed constantly (one was ranked internationally i believe).

A former roommate of mine did the individualized study program at NYU and included ballet in her major....