[dhosek]

Illinois still requires cursive as part of their elementary education curriculum (although it’s an outlier in that it also requires PE in every year of K-12 education and also for public university degrees¹ (maybe also private?) as well as speech in both high school and again for a public university degree.

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1. Typically this would only apply or a bachelor’s and maybe associate’s degree, but when I got my teaching credential/MS, because I had an out of state private college BA, I had to take undergraduate courses for state requirements including US Government, Biology, Speech and 2 PE classes. An ancient AP test score spared me having to take US History.

[cyberax]

Wait, PE is not mandatory in US schools?!? This is ridiculous.

[animal_spirits]

Illinois has a daily PE mandate, where other states it’s usually 3 days per week of PE

[dhosek]

In California at the high school level, I think it’s only 1 or 2 years of PE.