Lower Grade Point Average

Gym Grades should not impact your grade point average. It is highly unjust for the grades a student receives in physical education to make an impact (more so a deficient one) on their grade point average because it is not fair to the students that do well in all of their other classes besides gym to earn a lowered grade point average because of a class that only seems to be measuring your intelligence off of how competently you can participate in physical activity. There are a number of other reasons why it is not fair, one of them is that some children don’t participate in gym because it makes them feel uncomfortable. It is not fair to those that feel like they physically cannot participate, or legitimately cannot participate to receive a lowered grade even if it is based off of effort. One of my main reasons I believe that a lowered grade point average ensuing from a substandard grade in physical education is …show more content…
Earning a lowered grade point average may affect what classes the student is put into or even the college they get into at least upon first glance, assuming that the person or people making these decisions would put further consideration into the students grades. Not receiving a fitting grade in gym can also lower or even eradicate a student’s chances of graduating when they should, even if they received suitable grades in each of their other classes. Obtaining a lowered grade point average under this circumstance just simply isn’t fair, especially since someone's intelligence shouldn’t be based off of whether or not they know how to throw a