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From Yahoo News:

CANBERRA, Australia - An Australian high school hopes to stop beach-loving students from bailing out of class by making surfing an approved subject.

Byron Bay High School will offer surfing as part of a recreation course that from next year will count toward a high school certificate in New South Wales state.

"You've got students who are at risk of dropping out of school and the school has developed this course as a way to provide a pathway for these students into future employment and keep them connected to education," state Education Minister Carmel Tebbutt said.

But Federal Education Minister Brendan Nelson said surfing as a subject made a mockery of the education system.

"That we're now apparently offering it as a HSC (high school certificate) subject in New South Wales is an absolute disgrace," Nelson said.

Byron Bay has 16 surfing students this year but the state school board has only agreed to allow the subject to count toward a student's HSC from next year.
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Me too, what a great PE class! I mean you will get a workout and be encouraged to exercise!

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I hope it is not given the same credit hours as a math or science or liberal arts course!

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Seriously, if you can't keep 16 kids in class all day then you must have other issues. I really didn't like being in school, but you knew you had to be there. And your parents would kill you if you cut class. I guess it is different living in a small community, especially a surfing community. I would guess that CA has this issue. I wonder how they deal with it. There may be so many more people that they just don't notice.

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I went to the University in Hawaii.  They offered surfing.  I of course took that class a lot.

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My high school required PE. If I would've ben given the option of a surfing class instead, I would've snatched that up in a second.

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