Fitness tests in California schools may be suspended for three years over fears of the negative effect the test has on non-binary students forced to identify as male or female.
The state's current fitness assessment measures a student's body mass index which requires every student to select whether they are 'male' or 'female'. A number of school districts have complained to the state that this practice is discriminatory against students who identify as non-binary.
Under current requirements, California students in grades five, seven and nine must take a fitness test that involves a one-mile run, curl-ups, push-ups and a measure of body mass index.
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3 comments:
bless their little hearts. they never would have made it growing up in the Princeton Homes neighborhood in the sixties. give em some ice cream and cookies and tuck em in.
If a draft occurs can men identify as women to get a pass? Just saying, seems plausible.
Northwest Woodsman: We need to et rid of all those nasty standards That are unfair to low IQ minorities.
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