You wake up, fix your hair, put on a nice outfit, just to remember that you will have to change right out of it as soon as first block starts. You already despise having to change out of your regular school clothes into your gym uniform first block everyday, and now you also have to make sure to remember to put on your special chest strap and wrist watch.

Gym has always been pretty self explanatory. You show up, get changed and participate during the activities and games and you’re done for the day, usually with a 100. Now, things have changed a little bit. Students will now be required to use a chest strap and a wrist watch.

Each student will get a wrist-watch that they will program and use every class.

These wrist watches will be reused again in all the other classes. The watches will be programmed based on your sex, weight, and height. Students will be required to put on a chest strap underneath their gym uniform that will track their heart rate and transmit it to the watch.

The chest straps will have to be reused throughout classes, but will be cleaned in between.

The heart rate monitor is being used in many other physical education classes around the country. Grades now will be determined by individual standards and not on the standards of the state.

This will benefit those who are not fit like some of the other athletes in the class. Since grades  will now be based on the effort you put in, it will continue to be an easy class as long as you put in the effort to maintain a good grade. The teachers will see that you put in effort based on your heart rate that the monitor is tracking.

The watches and chest straps will start being used at the beginning of the upcoming school year. Although, it will only be the pilot year. Students will not be graded according to the watches until the following year so that the students and teachers will understand and see how the new technology works.