I failed gym/PE.......

djvu009 · 03-30-2008, 03:45 PM

I got an F in Phys ed. this quarter. I'm really scared, b/c I got into a bunch of good colleges that might rescind my acceptance. I'm going ok in all my academic classes, but I've been cutting pe for two months(I only showed up half the time). I will talk to the teacher this week and see if she'll pass me if I start going to class. If I fail gym I can't graduate, since my school requires 8 semesters for graduation. Wow what a wake up call. I guess I can't take senioritis too far. Will colleges rescind my acceptance if I fail gym?

cathymee · 03-30-2008, 04:00 PM

this happened to my D's friend a few years back. Accepted to NYU.She was able to make it up in summer school (here on Long Island,NY) but not all districts offer that possibility. NYU didn't rescind,but required proof of passing to allow her to begin that Fall semester,b/c the phys ed was required for her to graduate in NY State,and therefore she couldn't prove she had graduated w/o the passing grade.
Another option would be to make it up with a community college PE if the prospective college would allow. Best option of all would be for you to try to work out now with your high school PE teacher what you could do to ensure you pass for the school year.

Fred's Mom · 03-30-2008, 04:06 PM

You might check on the true graduation requirements. When I failed P.E. in 11th grade some 30 years ago (and I even showed up), I was able to successfully parse the language, which required that students "take" P.E. There was nothing that stated I had to passed. That, plus my argument to my H.S. counselor that while I could retake P.E., I would have to drop one of my four A.P. classes was enough to secure me a diploma.

thumper1 · 03-30-2008, 04:33 PM

>>Will colleges rescind my acceptance if I fail gym?>>

Well...the college could rightfully rescind your acceptance IF you do not graduate from high school. If PE is required to graduate, you could be in trouble. In my state, you would not receive your HS diploma until you satisfied this requirement. Most colleges also require that you send a final transcript in June that indicates that you have graduated. Maybe you should talk to your school guidance counselor ASAP. You may also be dealing with an issue that you have cut so many classes, that you automatically fail the course. You need to get all the information...tomorrow morning.

I have to ask...what were you thinking when you cut this class for two months????

bethievt · 03-30-2008, 04:39 PM

And I have to ask Fred's Mom--how did you manage to fail PE?

swimcatsmom · 03-30-2008, 04:55 PM

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I have to ask...what were you thinking when you cut this class for two months????

Ditto!!

I would grovel to that PE teacher. As in I will come to every class - is there anything I can do to pass. Extra pe work. Write a paper on the importance of fitness. Clean out the locker room. Anything.

It may be out of his/her hands. Our school district has a policy on attendance for passing. I think if you miss 7-8 is is an automatic fail and appealing it is a process through the school board.

Were you sent a warning that you would fail. My daughter was sent a warning in 10th grade when she missed some swim practices for ortho and doctors appointments (we foolishly chose to have her miss swim practice rather than an AP class - what were we thinking!). Of course the coach would mark her as truant even when he knew from us where she was so we had lots of fun sorting that out.

HisGraceFillsMe · 03-30-2008, 05:03 PM

^Same here...if we miss 10 classes (unexcused absences/truancies) we fail.

Appeal to the teacher, and if that doesn't work, talk to your principal/counselor. TAKE RESPONSIBILITY...don't make up some story about how you were gravely ill or something. Admit that you had a bout of senioritis.

Muffy333 · 03-30-2008, 05:05 PM

I still have dreams that this exact situation is happening to me, only sometimes it is science class and not gym class. It goes away when I wake up and realize I graduated from high school twenty or thirty years ago; any chance of that happening to you?

nngmm · 03-30-2008, 05:07 PM

I think 30 years ago the grades were based on performance, and not on "participation"

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nngmm · 03-30-2008, 05:11 PM

Some PE teachers would allow students to stay after school to make up for missed classes.
If you fail to graduate from HS, most colleges will rescind your admission (it probably even says in your acceptance letter that the acceptance is contingent on your continued academic performance and graduating from HS).

Novelisto · 03-30-2008, 05:22 PM

20 some years ago, I had to move over Xmas from NY to AZ my senior year. The PE requirements were totally different....AZ graded in quarters whereas NY only gave one point per term so I had 12 points or only 3/4 of the grade I needed. They weren't going to let me grad unless I took summer school PE -- in Arizona! Not to mention the fact that my dad was only waiting 'til I graduated to move to California. ('I'm a wanderer' could have been written for Dad.)

The guidance counselor talked to the PE teacher, who was a real leatherneck lady. Somehow he managed to convince her that 12 points equaled 4/4...3 points a year instead of 4. Thank heavens! If he hadn't done that, I probably wouldn't have been in California to meet the man I later married.

So start attending class regularly, djvu, and suck up to anybody you have to to get the heck out of high school. You're facing real life now and 3/4 of life is showing up!

djvu009 · 03-30-2008, 05:57 PM

^novelisto, you put it really nicely. I guess I'll have to suck up to the gym teacher and my guidance counselor big time. I wouldn't cut pe so much if it wasn't 1st period. It takes me 2 hours to get to school, and this being 2nd term senior year I no longer have motivation to wake up so early just to make it to pe. Those cuts added up, and now I'm in deep ****. I'll have to see what the gc and the pe teacher say tomorrow.

This is a hige mistake on my part. I've worked so hard for the past 3.5 years of hs, and how one term of pe is going to take away everything I've worked so hard for? If I really get rescinded I'm going to kick myself in the face big time. Hopefully the pe teacher will give me some slack, and I will have a passing grade by june if I start going to every class.

If, worse comes worse, she says that I can't pass no matter what, should I start contacting colleges now to see what they will say? Is it better to let them know early?

mom2three · 03-30-2008, 06:04 PM

As a high school teacher, I really dislike the "grovel to the teacher" suggestions. This isn't a student who struggled, or messed up a test that she didn't understand, or who had worked hard and come up short. She blew off the class and now isn't happy with the possible ramifications.

If I had a student who failed my class because she couldn't be bothered to show up, I would listen to her pleas and then say no. It takes TIME and ENERGY to grade extra work or make up new assignments for a kid to do to make up a low grade. I do this all the time for kids who are making an effort. I don't have the time or energy (literally folks - this isn't an easy job) to redo an entire quarter for someone who couldn't be bothered to come to my class and do the minimum. That some folks here think that a teacher should go above and beyond for such a student is astounding to me.

To the student - Find out how you can make up this credit, either through your school system or a private school or whatever. Then do it. Good luck.

Barneyfife2008 · 03-30-2008, 06:08 PM

"takes me 2 hours to get to school, and this being 2nd term senior year I no longer have motivation to wake up so early just to make it to pe."

Just think in a few years you can replace PE with the word JOB.

This is really your mistake and you are at the good graces of the school. Let's hope your apology is genuine and they notice.

It goes a "healthy mind and body" by the way.

swimcatsmom · 03-30-2008, 06:36 PM

Mom2three - i am so sorry if my post came across as seeming detrimental towards teachers in any way. It was certainly not meant that way - i have a good friend who is a teacher and have helped in her class (videotaping for a project) and freely admit it is a difficult job that i would never have the patience to do (I was asked if I would like to train to be a sub and told them i would be known as that Mean Mrs X - i wasn't really joking).

Anyway it was more a suggestion of a last ditch attempt to salvage the situation by adopting the approach of admitting she, the student, was completely in the wrong and what if anything could be done including anything extra work/credit wise - rather than going in with an attitude of having been done wrong to. Or excuses of any sort. It sounds like the OP has generally been a good student who has really screwed up. I can't imagine how missing a class so regularly for 2 months has gone unaddressed till now or how the OP thought it would not cause a big problem.