It's actually so fucked up that as a disabled person, my "adapted/accommodated physical education" for middle and high school was just endless online modules with tasks in the same handful of reductive categories:
Read about/identify the "four types of exercise fitness" described in the curriculum: aerobic endurance, muscular endurance, muscular strength, and flexibility
Read about body composition the horrors not being skinny
Looking at pie charts for the "correct" ratios of fruit/veg, grains, dairy, fats, other protein, etc.
Create a stupid fucking SMART goal
Submitting an (easily-faked) activity log for participation points and the silent judgment of the instructor you literally never saw
That's it. I was pulled from regular P.E. because I couldn't physically keep up and it wouldn't be safe/appropriate for me. I wish the adults had been able to make some arrangement for me to go to off-site physical therapy and let that count toward my P.E. requirements. I had some issues that probably would've really benefited from PT. But alas. My parents were great advocates for me, but they couldn't make pulling curriculum out of thin air and fighting with the school their full-time jobs.
Oh, and another fun fact: The school only had access to 2 online P.E. curriculums, both at the high school level, because the state required P.E. through grade 10. But I needed online P.E. starting in grade 7, so they just had me repeat one entire curriculum so that I would still have P.E. in grades 7 and 8. After grade 9, I didn't have to do it anymore because they marked it as me having completed grade 10 P.E. early, but then why wasn't it okay to stop after grade 8 once I'd completed both curriculums????
Anyway, I don't want to dwell too much on the past. I'm an adult and probably doing better than any of the miserable administrators involved in the whole kerfuffle. But I also have finally gained the maturity to realize that not only was it not my fault or something to 'put up with,' but a dereliction of duty from adults I should have been able to trust to make sure I received an adequate education. I pay their salaries now with my tax dollars, and, while I know the schools are underfunded, I also know they weren't doing what they're paid to do.
