JROTC Is Essential

This petition is to keep JROTC on the list of classes that qualify for the PE requirement. First and foremost is it not the school districts responsibility to prevent childhood obesity, it is the parents job to encourage their children to remain active and to have a healthy diet. The childs first teacher is his/her parents, it is during the first years of life that a child learns to keep a healthy diet and remain active.
If a student reaches High School already obese, a PE course is not going to make any kind of difference.

Removing JROTC from that list will prevent students from participating in this wonderful program. That is unfair to these students. Through JROTC students can learn skills that will help them throughout their entire lives. They learn communication skills, leadership skills, and pride in keeping healthy and strong.

Next you must consider that there are some students who cannot participate in sports. And students are not able to pass the PE test you have to waive PE. You must remember No Child Left Behind. Forcing students to take sports or PE courses that they cannot participate in will only result in leaving those students out.

JROTC students are active and they work hard, for this reason JROTC should remain on the list. JROTC students march and participate in physical activity. These students spend a week in a mini-boot camp as a part of the course, where they participate in physical activities.

Reconsider your decision and leave JROTC on the list of classes that qualify for PE.