Investigating an Academic Tug-a-war: PE and GPA Running a stimulating mile, performing relaxing exercises, and spending time with friends all sound pleasant and truly are as components of physical education. Students are given the opportunity to showcase their abilities or improve upon and learn new techniques. Physical education is imperative and provides many benefits to students. This class should continue to be counted in one’s grade point average, despite the recent arguments, proposed by opponents, which greatly lack evidence. An argument in favor of keeping PE when calculating grade point average is, “Gym is freedom and allows students to exercise at their own paces, team up with friends, and learn to keep their bodies in shape” (Hakimian, Kim). Physical education is not a difficult class to earn a passing grade in as long as constant effort is put in by the students since the grade is mostly based on participation. Students who may not have satisfactory grades in other classes can achieve an A or high B if they push themselves to the limit. In turn, this gives a healthy boost to students’ grade point averages, balancing out their other classes’ grades (Uscribe). For instance, in my own physical education class, participation weighs as two-thirds of the overall grade with actual physical …show more content…
There will be many times when students will neglect their health due to other factors such as stress or simply ignorance. By beginning now, we can instill a sense of physical education’s importance and ensure that students carry on these abilities to their adult lives, knowing that having a good physical state would vastly improve their mental