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A consistent grading scheme is used 6-12th in the Grundy Center Physical Education department.

 Effort:  50%
Daily Participation:  20%
Skill Awareness:  15%
Knowledge Awareness:  15%

Why does Grundy Center MS & HS have a health related approach to Physical Education?
 
  1. Physical inactivity contributes to 300,000 preventable deaths a year.
  2. Children born today have a shorter life expectancy than their parents.
  3. Nine million children ages 6-19 are overweight-- triple since 1980.
  4. Fifty percent of youth 12-21 participate in regular physical activity.
  5. Twenty-eight out of twenty-nine obese teenages who leave their teen years obese, remain obese.
  6. The cost of overweight and obesity in the U.S. is $117 billion per year.
  7. One out of three children born in the U.S. today will become diabetic (directly attributed to inactivity and lack of proper nutrition). 

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