BY SARAH GONZALEZ, State Impact
High school senior Vanessa Richter has taken PE online for the past two summers. She says the online course is not as easy as you might expect. You know that Florida’s fastest growing public school district is… online. About 148,000 students sucessfully completed 303,000 half-credit Florida Virtual School courses this past school year. And PE — as in physical education — is a popular class, according to students. So how do you take PE virtually? There are two half-credit courses: Personal Fitness and Fitness Lifestyle and Design. “They make you run, they make you do reps of crunches and you’re supposed to record it,” says student Vanessa Richter, a senior at Terra Environmental Research Institute in Miami.
http://stateimpact.npr.org/florida/2012/08/28/how-students-take-physical-education-online/
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