The Stupidest Thing Ever-Co-Ed PE

I have a great job. I teach P.E. most of the day. I can dress in shorts and some college T-Shirt and am a part of a great department. It's crazy and high energy but lots of fun. There is one problem though---CO-ED PE. Whoever thought of that?You maynot believe it but when I took P.E. in high school, we separated the sexes and it was great. You could do sports like football, basketball, water polo, and wrestling. Yeah, we still have team games but the girls tend to stand around and boys like to talk to the girls instead of playing hard. And the exercises-we used to do 50 push-ups,six count burpees, pull ups, mountain climbers,rope climb,obstacle courses, and peg boards. Now we have to water down everything so both the boys and girls can do them. This is an example of a government law made by politicians who have never been in a classroom. Title IX,which was made law to give girls equal opportunity has gone way too far. I am a big proponent of girls sports and both my daughters played girls sports and I coached both girls basketball and tennis for numerous years. When my wife and I were in high school, we didn't even have girls sports and she easily would have been good enough to play so I think girls sports are great.In fact,atmy school, the girls teams do way better than the boys almost every year. My classes are now in a swimming unit. Who do you think are swimming all of their laps and diving off the diving boards doing flips and belly flops and who do you think are doing everything they can to get out of the pool because"my hair will get wet"or I am on check???? I say it is high time to separate the sexes and bring back real Physical Education to our schools.