I often get asked “what’s your most popular course?” Believe it or not PE, Health and Life Fitness remain our most popular courses. These are such easy courses to take with us to free up time in your school day for other courses. Now by easy – I mean easy to fit into your schedule – not easy to breeze through without putting in the work. I’m not going to lie – there’s homework in Health. However I don’t think it’s any more than you’d get at your local high school. My high schooler just finished Health at her high school and she consistently had more work in health than in her advanced math course.
Our Life Fitness courses are popular because there are options! Initially you can choose to take either the nutrition or the exercise version. Both fulfill graduation requirements for NSD. (For other districts check with your counselor to see if it’s accepted as a PE credit.) Once enrolled there are a set of required modules as well as a set of optional modules of which students choose two. We’ve received positive feedback about having choices within the courses.
Then there is PE. For our already active students, this is a no-brainer. I mean – you’re already doing the work right? Take for example (again) my daughter. She’s involved in Winter Guard and gymnastics outside of school. She practices 15 hours weekly. She’d complete PE in just over 6 weeks. All she would have to do is document her practices on the provided log and write two one page papers. That would take what? An hour or two? BOOM! A PE credit.
So, you can see why these are the popular courses – choices and ease. What’s stopping you from signing up today?