My son is in high school, and they have to wear heart monitors in gym. This is meant to make sure that the kids are actually working hard enough in gym class. If the heart rate isn't high enough, they don't get credit for that gym period! However, the stupid things don't even work. Half the time, the kids are telling the teacher that the heart monitor is reading 00s. "Whoops, I'm dead, Mr. D.!" This also penalizes the kids who are in shape, as they have to work harder to make their heart rates go up.
All in all, the kids detest the monitors, as do the parents. They simply do not work as an accurate judge of the level of participation in gym class.
Got my Mac Classic, running System 7, bumped up to 4 MB of RAM, 40 MB hard drive, original keyboard and mouse, very little discoloration. 12 years old. Great fun...
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My son is in high school, and they have to wear heart monitors in gym. This is meant to make sure that the kids are actually working hard enough in gym class. If the heart rate isn't high enough, they don't get credit for that gym period! However, the stupid things don't even work. Half the time, the kids are telling the teacher that the heart monitor is reading 00s. "Whoops, I'm dead, Mr. D.!" This also penalizes the kids who are in shape, as they have to work harder to make their heart rates go up. All in all, the kids detest the monitors, as do the parents. They simply do not work as an accurate judge of the level of participation in gym class.
Got my Mac Classic, running System 7, bumped up to 4 MB of RAM, 40 MB hard drive, original keyboard and mouse, very little discoloration. 12 years old. Great fun...
It was Eddie Vedder calling, not Jimmy Tanner ... Which makes the guard even more clueless...