mightypeon
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No it isn't. Phys Ed is nothing more than a way to torture kids who are different and it should be outlawed. Only a masochist likes phys ed, and all gym teachers pass that test.
I don't give a flying fuck what Harvard requires. If a university that charges 60 grand a year has to force it's students to run around in a circle, then there is something very wrong with that place.
I have no idea what tuition is at Harvard. I pulled 60 grand out of my ass.
There is a bunch of good science that doing work outs regularly consistently and significantly improves you quality of life.
I was "different" too when I was a bit younger, do you know how much time it took me from beeing the "dude who gets picked last at soccer" to someone with an A-? About 7 months, and I didnt even train that hard.
Keep in mind that you do PE for yourself, not for you teachers, and you should do fine.
Simply put, there is nearly no situation where having a well trained body is disadventageous.
Yeah, except that PE in school accomplished nothing except making me avoid every activity that I even vaguely associated with it. To this day, I'd rather be tortured with red-hot pliers than have anything to do with organized sports in any way.
Well, if PE at school is not equivalent to regularly working out, than the way PE is thought at school should be changed.
In my opinion, PE should be composed of 2 parts. One parts should be a general "build up the body" thing, basically consisting of workouts, stretching and endurance training.
The second part should consist of a kids choice between many possible kinds of sports,
I think that both parts should be thought in an alternating fashion (if there are 2 PE hours per week, one of them will be Body training, the second one will be the "choice sport"). Ideally, the kids will see the benefits of improving the physical condition by achieving gradually better results in the sports part.
I do not object to the opinion that "forming the bodys of children" is not exactly one the constitutional duties of the state, it obviously isnt, but if the state does it anyway, it should at least do it in a sensibile and beneficial way.
P.S. I can assure you that, in Gymnastics, there are many ways to turn peeing into torture. My most "favorite" was jumping over that strangely shaped obstacle named "Bock" in german. After a countless number of failed attempts (Only discipline I failed, even in the Army -.-) I wisely choose to bring my trusty Martial Arts Deep Guard with me. While doing so did not increase my efficiency at jumping over (more precisly jumping into) solid objects, it certainly limited the damage dealt to a fairly important part of my body.
Gymnastics sucked for me, Judo and Rugby were very fun though.