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You've got gym: School offers PE classes online -- Steve Harrison, Miami Herald

It's a self-contained punch line, much like ''jumbo shrimp'' or ``business ethics.'' Online physical education. Yet 180 Broward and Miami-Dade county high-school students say they're working on their stamina, strength and flexibility through an Internet class proctored by the state. Besides taking a dozen written quizzes on fitness and nutrition, they submit logs that chronicle their running, stretching and weight lifting. 'When I first heard about this, I said, `Wait, this isn't right. You can't do this -- PE online,' '' said Tim Maxwell, a longtime physical education instructor at Pompano Beach's Blanche Ely High School who now teaches Broward's online PE class. ``But it works. The kids are honest, and they're doing what they're supposed to do.''

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