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Crayons    | | posted 15-Aug-2007 7:33am |
I've always hated gym. I just don't like running around in an organized way. Even back in the day when there seemed to be almost no such thing as jocks, I didn't want to go to gym. If I want excersize I just go for a walk and stuff. |
bill  | | posted 15-Aug-2007 8:05am |
I think there should be PE homework. Seriously, the goal should be to get each kid to develop and stick to a regular exercise program that they do on their own. The PE instructor should work with each kid individually to find a kind of exercise that works for that kid. Then, they can both monitor progress together, with the focus being on consistency and developing a healthy exercise habit that will last a lifetime. I don't think classes even make that much sense, but each kid should have a weekly one-on-one with a PE instructor. |
Lahdee  | | posted 15-Aug-2007 8:45am |
Becca's gym class has homework. They have to keep a record of home exercise. They also learn about health, nutrition, use heart rate monitors, pedometers, learn about the heart, heart disease, history of sports, etc.
Danny's elementary school gym classes weren't like that. He takes an OT gym class one day a week as a part of his IEP. (Individualized Education Plan) |
| TeddyMiller | | posted 15-Aug-2007 8:56am |
I had phys ed classes in school, and they gave me such a dislike for exercise and sports as to never want to do them again. |
LindaH  | | posted 15-Aug-2007 11:00am |
PE should reach out to everyone. Sports for the jocks, individual aerobic exercise for kids that aren't into team sports, light exercise for kids with resperatory issues.  |
Melf   | | posted 15-Aug-2007 11:30am |
Yes, if they find a sport they enjoy. Pretty rare though. |
| Galomorro | | posted 15-Aug-2007 11:34am |
Should reach out to everyone. If they do not want to play team sports or any other kind of sports, they should not be forced or pressured to. Give them a choice--if they want to play alone on jungle gyms or swings like I did when I was a kid -- well, that's exercise. So is climbing trees which I used to like. And riding my bicycle or pogo stick. Some people do not do well at sports and the other kids never choose them or make fun of 'em for being overly klutzy. So as long as the kid is doing SOMEthing active outdoors, let them. Maybe they might be a future jogger -- show films of VARIOUS sports to kids; give talks about the body, exercise, and individual as well as group sports; and make kids' books available about various sports and why exercising is good for one. Teachers and schools have no imagination and are just too rigid about stuff like this. |
| darkshadowsseeker | | posted 15-Aug-2007 12:08pm |
My experience was that the classes were designed to appeal to jocks and/or athletic types, but I can't honestly say that's the way they are now. I'm speaking from how they were back when I was in school & I graduated in 1970. Things may have changed drastically since I was in school.
That being said, I think gym classes should be aimed at appealing towards & helping everyone in class, no matter their abilities. |
| Richard47 | | posted 15-Aug-2007 2:54pm |
There is so much more involved than exercise. There is team work, learning how to interact towards a common goal, feeling included, and knowing how it feel to be excluded. I think that gym teachers sometimes are short on these socialization skills and tend to take on a jock type persona, where they put down the weakest link and praise the most popular student. They also embarrass kids who are not as athletically inclined by pointing out their flaws. So, yes.....they can help but it pertains more to the sociological of the course than physiological the side. |
| Amanda | | posted 15-Aug-2007 3:27pm |
They should reach out to everybody. Caleb's PE coach is really good. He makes it fun, while the kids are actually learning. Caleb comes home with all kinds of things to tell me. I've been using some of it in my daily workout routine. (Yes, I'm working out. Yay for me!) |
| Iseult | | posted 15-Aug-2007 3:35pm |
Yes, it could. Education must be wholesome (Aristotle, I believe, argued, and I agree), and physical education is an important part of it.
And no, they're not just for jocks. |
| cerealkiller | | posted 15-Aug-2007 4:30pm |
Obviously they "could". The question should be "Should school based ....." |
| RGirl | | posted 15-Aug-2007 7:43pm |
It only appeals to jocks but should reach out to everybody. If you aren't any good at organized games then you should have other options. |
| Enheduanna | | posted 15-Aug-2007 9:59pm |
It seems unlikely that they would tend to do anything but deter the less-athletically inclined, although as a member of this group, I did on occasion enjoy PE and it may have taught me a little about good exercise habits, although not much. Mostly I hated it. I don't think these classes are just for jocks either, though. At my school most of the jocks didn't even take PE, since they were exempt due to being on various sports teams. |
| LindaH | | (reply to Richard47) posted 15-Aug-2007 10:55pm |
"Teamwork" would be much more appealing to individualist 'work well alone' types if there were decent teachers who could make it more pleasant. They'd put the (verbal) smackdown on kids who only want to make it less pleasant for the awkward kids. That's where their jock coach tendencies could come in handy. |
| Richard47 | | (reply to LindaH) posted 15-Aug-2007 11:14pm |
That's right, most gym teachers favor the jocks, as it makes their job easier, more impressive to facility and/or parents and the other kids suffer...hating gym because they are going to be singled out as 'weak' and 'different'. I stopped gym in the 9th grade and went into the Junior ROTC, that was fun because it was like playing soldiers.
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| LindaH | | (reply to Richard47) posted 15-Aug-2007 11:19pm |
 High school is better, because students get to choose what gym classes they take. If you don't like team sports, there's gymnastics, aerobics, badminton, swimming, etc. |
| Richard47 | | (reply to LindaH) posted 15-Aug-2007 11:29pm |
Well, not when I was in school. I am sure it has changed since then. Those other activities would be extracircular in my time. Gym was the same year after year from 7th grade to 12th grade. |
| LindaH | | (reply to Richard47) posted 15-Aug-2007 11:32pm |
I'm glad it's different now. Team sports aren't for everyone, and they shouldn't be considered something everyone still somehow would benefit from after 6th grade. Most teamwork skills are built-in by then. |
| Richard47 | | (reply to LindaH) posted 15-Aug-2007 11:45pm |
No, they are not for everybody...it was expected years ago. Even in neighborhoods, you were considered odd if you didn't join a little league team, I did (as I felt forced to) and I was horrible and never picked to bat...I would cringe every Saturday morning in the summer, hating it, and I was only 8 years old. Horrible memories. |
| LindaH | | (reply to Richard47) posted 16-Aug-2007 12:18am |
Bummer. We didn't really have a 'neighborhood' growing up. Lived kind of away from the developed areas. Just played with each other, friends from school if they came over or we went to theirs, and cousins. Not much pressure outside of school at all. It rocked! |
| mrmarm | | posted 16-Aug-2007 2:33am |
No if anything the opposite, I'm not overly athletic but I am fanatical about working out and almost every night I bend over backwards and touch the ground and stay like that for 1 minute and 20 seconds and them I lay on the ground and lift both legs in the air and try to make my ankle touch my head. Believe me HPE didn't get me into that habit. Oh wait it says physical based classes, well karate does that, sort of, but because everyone wants to abit action hero. |
| mrmarm | | (reply to Richard47) posted 16-Aug-2007 2:35am |
Same but my HPE teacher is more interested in whose the girl with the biggest boobs. |
| Richard47 | | posted 16-Aug-2007 2:55am |
Oh, do they boys and girls have gym together? |
| mrmarm | | (reply to Richard47) posted 16-Aug-2007 9:49pm |
Yeah in Australia we do. |
| Richard47 | | posted 16-Aug-2007 10:04pm |
Boy, things have changed...for the better, I guess!! |
| mrmarm | | (reply to Richard47) posted 17-Aug-2007 6:49am |
What a HPE teacher staring at girls boobs bouncing around instead of attempting to help you with stuff oh and ah being a teacher. |
| Richard47 | | posted 17-Aug-2007 1:36pm |
No, being able to take gym together. I think that it would be more fun. |
| mrmarm | | (reply to Richard47) posted 17-Aug-2007 9:17pm |
How so? |
| mve17 | | posted 18-Aug-2007 11:37am |
HAHAHA physical education... hahahah... |
| Richard47 | | posted 18-Aug-2007 1:44pm |
Because girls, by nature, add an element of fun, where boys can get deadly serious about gym. |
cloudhugger  | | posted 18-Aug-2007 2:47pm |
These choices are for people who have a degree or some kind of formal training in such matters, except for the 'reaching out' option. I like that one.
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| mrmarm | | (reply to Richard47) posted 19-Aug-2007 7:14am |
Most of them are skanky ho sluts and personally I only 'get along' with two of them, to the others the only element they think about is the fat or the hair growing out of their ass' and how they think it's an asset to picking up 20 year olds. |
| Richard47 | | posted 19-Aug-2007 1:48pm |
You must go to a pretty ruff high school. |
| docgbrown | | posted 19-Aug-2007 6:01pm |
PE is good for you and me |
| mrmarm | | (reply to Richard47) posted 19-Aug-2007 9:52pm |
A country town, but I get by. |
| MacGregor |
Sometimes the kids dance during Phys Ed at our school. |
| Zang |
In theory. At the time, I considered it a form of torture. |
| autumnlight | | posted 10-Sep-2007 7:48am |
No, I hated PE. I'm not good at sport and I absolutely hated being embarrassed about being so bad in front of everyone, so much so that I avoid all sport now too. |
| moviesnob | | posted 10-Sep-2007 12:38pm |
I think Physical Ed. classes SHOULD reach out to everyone, but they don't. In my school, while we did learn some sports and the rules and such, we were mainly forced to engage in competitive play, and I hated that. While I understand the benefits of trying to teach children how to work as a team, it just became the jocks against whoever else, while they made fun of those less athletically inclined. I'd have been much happier just doing my own exercise routine, or running. I hated doing timed 50-yd dashes and playing basketball and volleyball games. |
| Biggles | | posted 18-Sep-2007 9:35am |
They certainly didn't do that for me. Actually, I was on the school netball team, but I played the position that required the least amount of running. |
| LindaH | | (reply to moviesnob) posted 18-Sep-2007 12:25pm |
There are plenty of times in other classes where kids have to work as a team (group projects) so I really don't see a need for anyone to use the 'team' argument for competitive sports in P.E. |
| JessicaWoman99 | | posted 26-Sep-2007 3:30pm |
Physical education classes are for jocks only and it sucks hard and does no good to anybody |
| BenSimpleton72 | | posted 8-Oct-2007 11:49pm |
Studies are showing kids not only have weight problems these days, but are suffering academically because of lack of exercise. My sons school is really trying to get the kids more play time to burn off the energy so they can learn better. |
| Channelkats | | posted 17-Oct-2007 9:58am |
All students need physical fitness for health, life and academics. |
