Is PE an important class?

[Aeshi]

No.But then I grew up in a house with 3 sets of stairs (and not those nice little steps either,those really steep one)

 

[Soviet Steve]

Kids games are not an important part of your education and should not be required. If you want to teach children about the body then expand biology class.

 

[dragonslayer32]

its completely useless, like art and drama

 

[spartan231490]

It's not being cut where I live. It's a requirement for a hs degree in New York State. Hell, the SUNY (NY community colleges) require you to take PE. Which is bs. when your in college it's your own responsibility to get off your fat but and stay in shape, not your colleges. It's just another way that the society of today will tell you that you are resposible for your own $hit, while holding your hand through your entire life. sorry, bit of a peeve

 

[ChocoFace]

I say keep it. Those who exercise don't mind and those who don't exercise really need this.

 

[DSK-]

I personally think it is very important. When I was in secondary (see: high school) PE was mostly sports and athletics but it wasn't something regarded as vital. When I was doing a college course about 3 years ago I got into a rather deep depression due to the crap happening there, and I also had have an operation on something.

I started working out out home before joining a gym 6 months later. A few months afterwards I took up jogging and I've been doing more and more to improve my fitness/health. I personally hold exercise as one of the things that helped me get rid of the majority of my depression (still can't sleep properly, apathetic mindset and emotional state still present though ).

Personally I think the mind and the body are two sides of the same coin. If you cultivate both you will feel alot better for it.

Yes, yes that was alot of info. I have a hyperactive mind so I can't help it >_<

 

[Aesir23]

It's being pushed aside? Wow, and up here they changed it from being able to quit taking PE in 11th Grade to forcing kids to take it all through school. (Glad I got out of my old school while I could. I despise PE)

 

[Con Carne]

Necessary? Not really. I'd rather get rid of PE and allow schools to teach health/sex ed.
Granted both are technically the parents responsibility to say "GTFoutta the house and be active" and to educate their kids to not make anymore mutant offspring. But parents have an easier time saying "GTFO." A lot of people are very uncomfortable talking about sex with anyone and their kids are no exception. So I think PE should be taken of the schools curriculum.

 

[DSK-]

I think PE should remain compulsory from the starts of kinda to the end of uni and beyond. Correct me if I'm wrong but in Japan you do PE or at least morning exercise at work and the radios play morning music so all the kiddies can get in extra workout time. I think it's brilliant and should be done everywhere. But Westerners are lazy bums who don't move unless they absolutely have to so I think something like that would go over badly in this neck of the woods.

PE is not the same as an exercise program or warm up. I agree with you in theory but not in practice. In lower years PE where I come from is either an excuse to goof and at higher levels in later years is less PE and more PE studies.

By that I mean not only do you apply practical skills but you learn how to organize sport teams, deal with injuries and designing excersises. Not only that but there's an additional factor of where does the time come from? Do the school days get longer or do you shorten breaks and classes? It's not as simple as saying "Let's make people do excersises."

Sure, you can try justify it by saying "Well other people do it." but that's an entirely different culture and that sort of reasoning may be the exact same reason not to do it from a different perspective.

Thats a good point, I forgot that in my own post - apologies for that (been a while since I was in compulsory education). I remember slacking off in my last year during PE. Nothing was really ever taught, it was just everyone doing something without really having a reason for it.

 

[kannibus]

As a guy that recently completed the original and best PT class (boot camp) I can say that it's good but it requires a bit of planning. Just running all the time or endless "Drop and 50" doesn't actually do any good. Back when I was in High School, we didn't have any kind of "get them in shape". IT was just us dicking around attempting to do some sports (which I sucked at). But if schools were to actually take PT seriously and have some kind of actually logical regimen, it would be an awfully good thing to have. After all, what's the point of spending an embarrassing amount of money turning out a functioning member of society if they're going to have a ton of health problems later on?

 

[GrinningManiac]

Around here, PE equates to playing random different sports

This means that the kids who play Football (Soccer) outside of school win at Football and laugh at your skills. Same for the Rugby, Basketball, Hockey and Athletics players/doers.

Therefore, the non-sporty types abhorr the subject, and usually pick some minor team position and hang around the goal doing nothing and being miserable.

If we actually did exercise rather than learning that the Football Players could play Football better than me, I'd probably have enjoyed it more

 

[Quaxar]

Well, I personally always hated PE... and I'm actually underweight and pretty fit for someone who spends his entire day at the PC so it wasn't for the exhaustion. But all we had were two "go play soccer" hours a week and I personally totally loathe soccer. Nevertheless there were times when I was forced to play it because the teacher we had back then thought it would encourage teamplay... yeah, sure, problem was it mostly resulted in the soccer aces yelling at everyone not playing like they did.
I'm in middle europe, soccer is the main religion here (even though our national team sucks at it) so i think one can understand my hatred for PE.

Also, I want to study engineering so I see no real reason why I should endure physical anguish. I won't need it in the future for my job and in case the robots revolt I'm going to be the first one dead so why bother?

 

[Soxafloppin]

Yea, its alot of fun! What kid doesnt love running around aimlessly burning calories!

and we need it to keep us from having over weight unhealthy kids!

And it should 100% be taught in schools in of immense importance for careers in the fittness industry!

 

[Valkyrie101]

PE doesn't help people to get fit. I find it involves fuck all exercise, either queuing up to do something, or standing around a lot.

 

[Disconnected]

I've always hated PE. The only people who liked it were the sporty ones anyway, so it didn't make people fit. If anything, it made me feel like crap and hate the idea of sports even more. Because for some reason being good at sport made a kid "cool" but being good at any other subject like maths, science, history, etc made them "uncool". And I was a smart, if unfit, kid - naturally, this made me completely worthless to all of my comrades.

Even if you have friends to team up with, anyone who can't pull off a triple jump trampolining flying kick whilst playing football after a measly 12 laps of the field can just say goodbye to being anything but the butt of every joke for the next fortnight.

If you want your kid to be fit, take them to a club where they can actually have fun. Don't stick them in a pair of shorts and make them run around for an hour to amuse all the kids who do sports in their spare time voluntarily.

 

[Nixzilla]

in my pe all we did was run half a mile and play dodgeball so my pe was useliss

 

[thegamermn]

I believe it is needed. Provided it's done properly. Yes, children and teenagers need to learn how to exercise properly and they need exercise. However when there is a large, heavily muscled man screaming in your face and making you run laps for asking questions (This was what my PE teacher was like) Then the children aren't going to want to learn.

 

[R1CK_D0M]

PE is important in that is in an easy A to boost your GPA. Really, all you have to do is show up. Other than that, it really does nothing imo, you're not going to get more fit/healthy by going, because the ones that will become/stay fit/healthy are the ones that actually care and do that stuff in place of their free time, and any info it gives you on being fit/healthy can easily be found on the internet.

 

[Abedeus]

No. Most of the kids in my group just play ping-pong or use time to study. Me and my one friend sometimes work out, but lately due to exams P.E. is a freebie. It stops being a freebie this week, I hope, so I can at least not be bored out of my mind.

 

[RamirezDoEverything]

It's not anymore(even though I think it's bullshit).

Now that we're in these times, no body wants their child to be laughed at, made fun of, or left behind, which includes gym class. And because of this (with all the lawsuits and such) gym is so easy (even at a high school level) could be done by a 4 year old. I did 40 push-ups in the presidential challenge thing and got a record in my school. 40? really? I know their are plenty of people stronger than I but becasue gym is not taken seriously, people who are fit aren't expected to do much and screw around.