Current Events > California may end student physical fitness tests due to bullying concerns.

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https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-02-05/california-may-pause-student-fitness-tests-due-to-bullying

Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to pause physical education tests for California students for three years due to concerns over bullying and possible discrimination against disabled and nonbinary students. The move comes after annual test results showed a growing percentage of students scoring as not healthy. H.D. Palmer, spokesman for the Department of Finance, said the state has received complaints that the current examinations measurement of body mass index is discriminatory to nonbinary students. A measurement calculated from weight and height, the school BMI screenings require students to select male or female, he said. Annual state reports of the fitness test since the 2014-15 school year show a steady decline in the share of students scoring healthy, according to a review by the Associated Press. Students scores have particularly dropped in the category of the test that measures aerobic capacity, which can be tested with a one-mile run, for example. Other categories test for flexibility and exercises like push-ups. In the last five years, the percentage of fifth graders scoring healthy in the aerobic category has dropped by 3.3 percentage points. In seventh and ninth grades, the drops are 4.4 percentage points and 3.8 percentage points, respectively. Meanwhile, the percentage of students identified as needing improvement and having a health risk went up: by 3.3 percentage points among fifth graders, 4.4 for seventh graders and 3.8 among ninth graders.

The proposal, first reported by Politico, was tucked inside Newsoms education budget bill for next year. School districts nationwide use such tests, and the results can inform still-growing children about potential health problems, experts say. But data from such tests and BMI measurements should not be used to diagnose health risks, according to the Society of Health and Physical Educators. The issue of BMI screening plays a role in the issues of both body shaming and bullying, Palmer also wrote in an email. Ketchell agreed that BMI screenings are flawed. He said, for instance, that the 6-foot-2-inch, 240-pound Schwarzenegger would have been officially classified as obese when he won the top bodybuilding title of Mr. Olympia in 1974.

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I'm surprised gym class even still exists, seeing as it's not on the standardized test at the end of the year.

lets not pretend kids were trying that hard before.

just skip the stupid tests and let them just have physical activity

BMI tests have always been bunk. At 5'4" and 171lbs I was classified as obese.

This however was when I was in the army and scoring max points on the sit-up and pushup portions of their fitness test. (Not the run though, I'm a terrible runner)

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Why was it a thing in the first place. It was more useless than DARE

Sabram posted...

BMI tests have always been bunk. At 5'4" and 171lbs I was classified as obese.

This however was when I was in the army and scoring max points on the sit-up and pushup portions of their fitness test. (Not the run though, I'm a terrible runner)

lol

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More wonderful democrat policies LOL

Snowflakes gonna snowflake

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Just ban bullying.

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They should probably just ban all sports in PE honestly, it was waaaaaay more embarrassing when you got completely owned in basketball than being last in the mile run.

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JBaLLEN66 posted...

lol

Something funny in my post?

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Lebronwon posted...

due to concerns over bullying and possible discrimination against disabled and nonbinary students. The move comes after annual test results showed a growing percentage of students scoring as not healthy.

Being non-bianary automatically makes you unhealthy? What kind of "science" is that?

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Why not just pass a law allowing disabled students to be exempt or whatever?

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yeah, America is definitely heading in the right direction.
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They are unhealthy and failing the tests because they are fatties who cant put the donut down.

Has nothing too do with discrimination. People have no accountability.

California is a dumpster fire.
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California has banned more things in the last four years than Trump has.

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008Zulu posted...

Being non-bianary automatically makes you unhealthy? What kind of "science" is that?

MtFs using the calculations for women even though 200lbs is a healthy male and a chubby girl.
At least I assume thats the gist of it or a good example.

That said... don't score the kids on how fat they are, its partly their parents' fault and it doesn't do any good.
But, do encourage exercise; I still eat garbage but now that Im working manual labor Ive shed a pound a day for the past two months.

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No one even takes physical education in hs seriously just get rid of it. Lol

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DoomSwell posted...

MtFs using the calculations for women even though 200lbs is a healthy male and a chubby girl.
At least I assume thats the gist of it or a good example.

BMI is such bullshit.


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AngelsNAirwav3s posted...

They should probably just ban all sports in PE honestly, it was waaaaaay more embarrassing when you got completely owned in basketball than being last in the mile run.

Lol, nobody cared about the mile run. I was near last all the time, most people jogged like the first half and then walked the rest of the way. Then you got the track kids and sports kids who did the whole thing, although they walked sometimes instead because it's not even a real grade

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I tried very hard and got presidential one year despite not being very strong, flexible, or enduring. I was a weak twig and sucked at sports. Now I'm fat as fuck.

I always thought it was weird they made little kids go get their balls checked by the doctor.

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I swear people in California live outside of reality.

But sure, it's not not a problem that little Susie eats a dozen donuts each day, it's everyone else who's wrong for laughing at her fat ass (or even worse, telling her she's unhealthy).

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How about crack down on bullying instead?

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Middle hope posted...

How about crack down on bullying instead?

Melania can only do so much!!!

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Akagami_Shanks posted...

AngelsNAirwav3s posted...

They should probably just ban all sports in PE honestly, it was waaaaaay more embarrassing when you got completely owned in basketball than being last in the mile run.

Lol, nobody cared about the mile run. I was near last all the time, most people jogged like the first half and then walked the rest of the way. Then you got the track kids and sports kids who did the whole thing, although they walked sometimes instead because it's not even a real grade

This. One year while in middle school, I made it a personal goal to not walk at all. I paced myself and jogged the whole way, didn't get a good time but goddamn it I ran the whole thing. When I finished my last lap I proudly told the teacher that I hadn't stopped to walk at all. She just rolled her eyes, gave me a lackluster and sarcastic "good for you" and clicked her timer.

Made me feel worse than if I hadn't even tried.