P.E should not required in schools (Or at least there should be alternatives)

You said that there is no way to see how energy is exerted. P.E teachers are trained to see how kids are performing in class and see how much energy they exert. Also, P.E. teachers look at children a lot more than once and they don't only grade them off of one look. Teachers can also tell if you are putting forth your best effort by using one technique; if you are able to talk to your friends while you run. Usually, if you are able to talk to your friends without taking deep breaths or talking with ease, you are not exerting your best effort. I agree with you; some aspects are flawed, but there are less flawed concepts than concepts that are fine. Secondly, Fitness-gram's recommendation is set in a way that they take the average ability of how the kids in that state perform and then they make that the benchmark. This benchmark is set so that it will be reached by many children. In my schools, if a teacher decides to put it as a grade, it is a pass/fail. If you hit the number, you get a one. If not, you get a 0. Also, I would like to know which school makes you run 20 sprints. I have never heard of a school that makes you run 20 sprints. I am very confused about your statement about the team captain system. Are you trying to say that P.E. teachers would grade you based on which team you go to. Please explain this in the comments. As for your first argument on clothes, I agree. It is sometimes unpleasant to change in a locker room. In the first few days of P.E. class, everybody is nervous about changing in the locker rooms together. After the first week, everybody would be talking while they are changing. Some people don't come to school in the proper clothes to exercise that day. The P.E. clothes can stop them from having to not wear the clothes they want to school. Now you said that P.E. teachers will always favor a more athletic kid if everything else is equal. I agree, but I also don't agree. Sure, a teacher may like the student better, but they wont give them a better grade. Like I said earlier, P.E. teachers just have a way of figuring out if you are putting forth your best effort. Lets say and athletic kid beats a less athletic kid in the mile and the kid that is more athletic didn't exert much energy at all while the less athletic kid exerts as much energy as possible. The teacher will know that the more athletic kid could have done better if they had tried harder. They will give full points to the less athletic kid because he/she exerted as much energy as they could. I would also like to say that kids tend to like P.E. and it is like a break for them. Most kids, if not all, in my school look forward to P.E. everyday. If schools got rid of P.E. , kids would lose their "break" time. I believe that P.E. is worth it to schools and that there should be a requirement for kids to take it. Not all people do an extracurricular sport so they should be able to get the exercise in school. I also think that the money invested in P.E. is worth it because the department gets better equipment so that kids will have more fun with the games that they play in school. P.E. also encourages physical activity because people want to try and win whatever they are doing so that they can feel good about themselves. In conclusion, P.E. has a purpose to schools. Although there are some cons, I think that the pros outweigh them. It encourages physical activity because kids like to win the games. I believe that it is worth it. P.S------ Thank you for letting me participate in this debate. I feel like we both did well in the debate and I wish you the best of luck. From, MonkeyBomb20