Should I tell/ warn a family about their child’s poor fitness test scores??
California Elementary PE teacher, tenured 7 years, and I am finishing up administering physical fitness tests on my fifth grade classes. I have one student in particular who has not passed a single fitness test yet - push ups, curl ups, mile, pacer, not even trunk lift or shoulder flexibility.
He is admittedly overweight, but otherwise happy, positive, shows up to class, tries his best. Ive noticed that he always has an excuse ready for why he gets these scores; ie: “I fell down this weekend and hurt my wrist so my push ups might not be very good”, or “I rolled my ankle yesterday so I won’t be able to run the whole time…”
I don’t suspect abuse, but I do suspect overall unhealthy habits, or lack of healthy habits that have culminated in his inability to meet national fitness standards.
Should I email parents about this? Or let him know he’s failed and help him set personal goals for summer / middle school!?
OR
Should I just leave it as is and check the box that I did my job to assess and forget about it (for my jobs sake, and not to be rude)