Care in Education

Compared to many other subject areas, Physical Education often gets overlooked and pushed aside. Subjects such as History, English, Math, and Science are typically considered more important are often given preference over Physical Education. An example of this would be if a student missed a class and needed to get the notes that were taken and make up a test. Teachers would often suggest doing this during their lunch or a Physical Education class. This is unfair to Physical Education classes and other classes who get treated this way. Many people consider those classes not as important because students don't get as much out of them as they do compared to other classes. But Mr. Gabelt has done a great job at getting much more out of the students in his class compared to other Physical Education classes.

Physical Education classes are meant to get students active and attempt to improve their health. Most classes just provide students with a game or activity to do and the students determine their own level of activity. But in Mr. Gabelt's class all of the students do several activities to ensure their activity. At the beginning of period all the students are required to do many stretches as a class to prepare themselves for the activity. After stretching, they do push ups, sit ups, and jumping jacks. This is already more than most Physical Education classes but it does not stop here. Then they usually have to run three or four laps around the gym too. They are also tested on all these things during the course of the class. By testing the students it brings out the competition in them and encourages them to try to do the most of one activity as they can such as push ups. The students don't look at this as exercising but rather having fun in a way and trying to be the best. Anytime students can have fun while doing something productive for themselves is always a good situation. Mr. Gabelt has found a way to make Physical Education meaningful for students and give it more respect compared to other classes because the students actually get something positive from the class.