Throw on your gym shorts, tie up your running shoes, and roll on some deodorant. It’s time for Physical Education class, or gym for short. Ask anybody, and they’ll tell you gym is an easy credit. This is because it’s easy or unimportant, but because it’s the only class in school that requires brawns and not brains, and it heads away from the general norm of high school academics; t also gives kids an opportunity to get some exercise. So what about the students who play a sport and already get hours of exercise a day playing their own after school sports? I think that students who play a sport should be able to use that in place of the gym credit. In my own experience I get a lot more exercise swimming after school than I do in gym in a whole week. So if I get that much exercise, what is the point of going to gym class? Now every student doesn’t play a sport, so in their cases gym is a great thing to have, but for others not so much. There are a few exceptions to this, of course. First of all, I understand that a lot of students only play one sport at one point in the year. I do not believe they should be exempt from taking a Phys. Ed. class for the entire year. It is completely possible to make them exempt for the duration of the sports season however, and then when they are done with the sport, make them take gym. The point is: that gym is a class specifically set up to give students a healthy place to exercise and stay fit. Some students already get that in the form of an after-school sport. Gym class should become an option for those who already excel at exercise.