Your opinion on Gym Class

[Moonlight Butterfly]

I hated it. I just wasn't interested at all. If I was allowed to go swimming instead I would have been totally fine with that. I just hate team sports.... and by extension the other students in the school.

The male teachers said the girls could play football if we managed to get a goal past them. I was the only one who did, they lied, they didn't let us play footie.

Sexist fucks.

 

[Mr Fixit]

My gym class was the most boring waste of time for me. I didn't mind the exercises we did at the beginning of class everyday, what got me was the fact that for the rest of the class the only other thing we could do was play basketball or run. I hate basketball & the only time I will run is if something that can kill me is chasing me. They wouldn't let us go outside & do things. If we could have gone outside & play a couple of outdoors sports or hell just throw a ball around I would have gladly done it. We had a ping pong table in the gym for a little while, but it was taken out because of idiots doing idiotic things....... So after the daily exercises I would either catch up on sleep or homework... oh & flirt with a few of the ladies in the class that also hated basketball.

 

[Waaghpowa]

I get that it's supposed to get kids active, into sports and all that, but I hated gym. Mostly because I'm not interested in sports in general and have always been more interested in computers.

That and I thought it was stupid that my gym grade counted toward my overall grade. Not that I did poorly, but just the idea that ones physical performance somehow tied in with what a lot of people use to measure intelligence.

 

[Sunrider]

I had a really abusive gym teacher. Not abusive as in violent, of course, but abusive nonetheless. Lots of bad memories. Needless to say, I hated every minute of it. I do, however, realize that it is very important for a lot of people, so it's not a bad thing by default.

On a side note, the teacher I mentioned is dead today. Cancer, I think. The day I heard about it was a very happy day for me.

 

[The Unworthy Gentleman]

Definitely necessary, though America might want to change it's curriculum for PE. We usually played sports, like football or tennis, some games like dodgeball, circuit training and cross country in PE and while it was a pain in the arse it was still pretty good. It was a great way to unwind if you had it at the end of the day and it gave you a boost if you had it early.

School really shouldn't just focus on academia, that would be really fucking stupid, some people want careers in sport. You can't just cut something out like that just because the geeky kids aren't very good at sports and feel self concious. If we really gave that much of a shit or were as smart as we thought then we would have tried and gotten better rather than sat and moaned.

 

[D-Soul]

For me Gym wasn't that bad

what got on my nerves about it was taking it because it was a requirement for graduating high school

 

[Kajin]

Country needs more Gym class. There always needs to be a block of time dedicated purely towards keeping kids physically fit. How are we ever going to outrun the zombies if we can't even run a single lap around the gymnasium?

 

[Spider RedNight]

Not a fan of PE, though I know why it was there. Of course, I was never one of the kids that needed it(despite that I might need it now), so for me, it was just more of a blow off hobby class than anything.

Though I always despised it when I was FORCED to play a game with teams if it wasn't "The floor is water you'll drown if you touch it and get your team across" - even though with THAT, I guess my ideas were too radical. Like "use the rope to pull someone across." But I hated football most. I guess I was okay with kickball and soccer - though it was one of those "I don't want that kid" things. It was either because I was lazy or nobody thought I was any good at anything. xD

BOTTOM LINE IS that while it seems like a good idea in the long run, they should keep mundane things like running and football out of the equation. I'm a cheetah, I don't run for a long amount of time.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

Eh, I was never really was a fan... but then again, I'm not one for physical activity.

 

[Callate]

It is very important to have some strenuous physical activities in one's lifestyle, both to strengthen one's body and for one's general overall health, both physical and mental.

Annnnnd most gym classes do an awful, awful job at this. They teach kids that exercise is boring, repetitive, and painful. That only the best at athletics will get any kind of recognition for their efforts, and that everyone else will be ignored or mocked, by their peers if not by the teachers themselves. In some cases, gym is the one time where kids are actively encouraged to act violently and/or in a bullying way towards one another (I've heard some truly nightmarish stories about games like Dodgeball), making gym something many students look to each class day as a source of actual dread.

Gym class- not unlike many other classes- could be a great thing if it was actually more individualized. If students were more encouraged to find things they were good at in their own time and to improve their skills. If they were allowed to pursue fields that interested them, with the recognition that not every kid is going to be great at basketball or high jump or track, but they might find their niche in judo or volleyball or tennis.

But for far too many schools, "gym class" is just something they're required or expected to have, a check mark that gets all but ignored once it exists and has an allocated budget to keep the various balls inflated.

 

[Shilefin]

Being the lazy fellow* that I am, P.E obviously wasn't the highlight of my day. It was usually boring as hell after I turned 12 and lost even the minimal interest that I had in it beforehand, super-competitive because of idiots who would take every football(that, or any other of those dumb, unimaginative disciplines) match like SRS BZNS. The only thing I could do that would make me enjoy that sweaty dimwit-riddled torture of a lesson was to, well, make fun of it.

Thankfully for me, the issues I had with it kind of went away as I ventured into the realms of Junior High School, but I can sympathize with other people and put myself in their situation.

That being said, I don't deny that P.E is very important for people of any age, really, and shouldn't be removed from schools, but that comes with a few points:
1. P.E should never be graded, at least not in the traditional manner where a genius-savant getting A's in everything that at the same time is unable to pull himself up made him repeat the class. It especially shouldn't be considered vital during the later stages of education, like universites, colleges, you get the idea.
2. P.E, like most classes is being taught in a very arbitrary kind of way, not showing you, as someone has pointed out, how to really take care of your own body. That, though, is a part of an underlying problem that lies at the bottom of the education system itself.

 

[AceDefective]

My school doesn't let us chose which sport to play, and that is fucking retarded by the way
So I like it when I'm lucky enough to be placed into a sport that I enjoy like Soccer, but it quickly becomes my least favorite class if I have to play something I don't enjoy everyday like football.

 

[neoontime]

Liked it, easy class and A grade as long as you do what your supposed to. Also I learned to square dance. Sure I'm not the most athletic but I would be brain dead if I had to pick any tougher classes than Systos or Gym.

 

[Dedtoo]

I'm no fan of sports, nor am I a very active guy.
Yet I have the option to not have gym, yet I do, cause if I don't, I'll lose the one form of physical exercise I get. >_>

 

[Stu35]

and unpopular because I used to live in Germany.

I know your pain. My nickname in School was 'Nazi' - the reason being that I lived in Germany when I was younger, the reason for that being that my dad was in the British Army.

People in coal mining towns in Yorkshire are not very enlightened, well travelled, or in many definitions of the word 'people'. If only we could put them in camps...


Wait, what?

 

[Edl01]

I hated gym, I don't like sports, and I don't care about obesity rates. If people want to go fat let them, I mean it is there choice if they want to excercise, they can do it themselves.
Also I do not remember PE being social:
All I remember is being on a muddy field freezing half to death in my shorts and t-shirt in the middle of november being told to dive in the mud to get a rugby ball and then getting detention for refusing..while it was snowing...also most of them time all that people say in PE is usually swearing and threats at the other team/other players o there team because for some reason sports seem to make people uncivilised and violent when they play/watch.(it is the main reason I have never got into them).

Edit: I forgot to mention I done no tests in PE and got no GCSE's from it meaning I spent 2 hours a week in school that I could have out towards science or math or another subget I am actually going to use to go to college rather than running trying to get a ball between two goal posts.

 

[Artemis923]

Gym and weight lifting classes were great.

I mean, you get grades for working out every day. How can you complain about that?

 

[Froggy Slayer]

People in coal mining towns in Yorkshire are not very enlightened, well travelled, or in many definitions of the word 'people'. If only we could put them in camps...


Wait, what?

Sir, I am a native Yorkshireman, and I take great offense to your comment! I challenge you to a duel, sir, on the field of honour!

 

[rob_simple]

I think gym class would have a place if it was like whenever I see it in a Japanese film and they're doing all that synchronised aerobics shit; you know, just promoting general fitness.

As it stands, when I was at high school, all P.E. facilitated was sorting out the people who played football from the 'poofs'. I was in the latter category and hated all four years of compulsory P.E because rather than exercising and staying fit I was just getting shouted at for being shit at football.

 

[Twilight_guy]

A good idea unfortunately so poorly executed its laughable. I was bullied during gym, probably primarily because its one of the few times your placed with random people and not academic peers that you know. I think organizing the composition of gym would not only avoid this but make people be with people that they, you know, like instead of random people. It also never felt fun or worth while for me. I always felt like they were pushing me to do something I had no interest in and I had no desire to be participating in. Maybe different activities or a different presentation could fix that. I know gym class is a good idea but i wish it would be organized differently so other kids would not have an experience with it as horrid as mine.