Is PE an important class?
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Too right, besides it is important, unless you mean the PHYSICAL part of PHYSICAL EDUCATION, because is obviously important.Explosm said:
Wow, okay.mrhappyface said:
I'm not even going to bother with this. It's so incredibly strange and the attitude you have is exactly the attitude that created the world we live in where children are made to conform and to be just like everyone else, or they get harassed. And I hate that. No, I despise that.
It's not too much to ask that people should be allowed to be themselves and to be encouraged to learn and grow and to make the world a better place is it? Apparently it is too much to ask for. Apparently it's only ok if they do that when no one else has to deal with them. Heaven forbid they challenge others to show some fucking empathy, consideration and dare I say it some intelligence. Apparently if they want to be at school, they have to act just like every other brain dead moron out there. Well, what a fantastic world we are shaping.
So it's best for the thread if we stop conversing here. Cheers, and I hope you grow some sense. When you leave school you'll realise that it is the individuals that accomplish things in the real world. It is the different people. Only a very select few manage to become successful athletes. If you keep up this attitude, you'll leave school and blend right in with the rest of the idiots. Good luck.
Sorry, but what part of someone claiming that no one "fuckin" cares about a Hadron Collider or the intelligence that goes with it isn't ignorant? Ignorant means one who is lacking in knowledge or is misinformed. I can't think of a better example of ignorance than that.zehydra said:
PE is ok, for me it was boring, but generally a bludge. except once when i had this ***** of a substitute who, because i had forgotten my sports shoes, forced me to play softball on a synthetic field in the middle of an Australian February in bare feet - no socks no school shoes (which i did have) - just bare bloody feet. I got blisters all over my feet from the heat... fucking *****.
As the nerd of the class PE was shit. My coordenation for soccer or handball was awful, I thou enjoyed volleyball and basketball. And still regardless people making fun if you dont have the skills for the activity in place, PE is silly, forces you to do activities you actually don't like. Or you dont like to do in school. I had colleagues in the juveniles and juniors of football, basketball and handball, and still they hated PE, specially when the activity was their sport as playing with a bunch of demotivated and descoordenated folks for them was like torture.
Even if they say its useful to stimulate you to undertake a sport carrier, how can it be?! Maybe it works with American Football?! Cinema and television give that idea. Could work with golf too. Doesn't work with soccer, swimming, cycling.
And definitely not with gymnastics (including rhythmic, artistic or the jumps to water variation, ski jumping, and even skate and snowboard jumps.) At 15 you cant start, at 15 you need to be a pro already, and in the hardest of the specialities, artistic gymnastic, your best shot for a gold medal is at 15-18. At 20 you lost flexibility and your performance quality starts to fall abruptly.
Even if they say its useful to stimulate you to undertake a sport carrier, how can it be?! Maybe it works with American Football?! Cinema and television give that idea. Could work with golf too. Doesn't work with soccer, swimming, cycling.
And definitely not with gymnastics (including rhythmic, artistic or the jumps to water variation, ski jumping, and even skate and snowboard jumps.) At 15 you cant start, at 15 you need to be a pro already, and in the hardest of the specialities, artistic gymnastic, your best shot for a gold medal is at 15-18. At 20 you lost flexibility and your performance quality starts to fall abruptly.
I agree that PE is all well and good for those who are fit, they don't see it as a problem and feel it is necessary. I've always been very sport orientated, didn't take PE as an option because it meant I had to do gymnastics. I had an accident which lead to a trapped nerve in my neck from a headstand so didn't want to do that again! PE does lead to some people having social anxiety. I do believe PE is necessary but should be structured better, like having sets instead of having everyone in the same class as it was in my school.
I think you're being really arrogant here. You come across as if you're deriding all sports as pointless and all atheletes as braindead morons who contribute nothing to society. Sure most sportsmen don't invent a brilliant new device which which further mankind's advancement but not all people are that gifted and intelligent. Most people who spend their whole education learning and getting smarter while completely ignoring other aspects of school life, like sport, generally don't come up with a new genius invention either.Kortney said:
Also, lots of atheletes support charities and outreach programmes to children in troubled areas, providing them relief through sport. Is that a bad thing? Doesn't that help make the world a better place?
Until they stopped when I went into 6th form this year, I loved the compulsary PE lessons in my school. For a start, it was basically 3 hours a week where instead of being in lessons, I could do sport and mess around with my friends. Maybe it's a rare occurance, but in my school everyone in the same PE class was fairly friendly with each other and whatever games we had going on were hilariously fun. Sure there were people picked on occaisionally, but it happened to everyone at some point. Even though I was (and probably still am) one of the more physically active and more skilled guys in my class, I still got laughed at every now and again; especially since when the class were being taught stuff I'd be the one called to do the demonstration for a sport I'd played at a high(ish) level for a few years then forgotten about. I'd always make some kind of mistake before I got back into the 'flow' (I now want to kill myself for saying that) of the sport and I was always called out on it. Maybe thats because people know I can take that stuff and laugh along with it.
That said, the kids who were fat and unfit eventually decided they'd rather sit around and do nothing, but that wasn't because of us making them feel bad, it's because they just couldn't be bothered to try. Our PE classes were never hyper-competitive and as such, the guys who actually did sport outside of school (me with football, tennis and badminton for example) never really tried to make the others look bad. Hell, if we were playing football, despite being a striker I'd throw myself in defense sometimes and spend the entire game winning the ball back and immediately giving it up to whoever was in the best position. All in all I'd say it helped introduce people to new sports which some found they were actually quite good at; thhe generally quite geeky guy in my class turned out to be a decent Goalkeeper and really quite good at tennis. He's playing tennis in a regional league now I think.
I don't quite know where I'm going with this, and I have an AS Maths exam this afternoon that I should be studying for so basically:
TL;DR: PE r gud. I liek PE. My clas was prety cool. It help 2 introduc kidz 2 sports n excercise n stuff. Now go back up to the top and actually read it you lazy bastard.
That said, the kids who were fat and unfit eventually decided they'd rather sit around and do nothing, but that wasn't because of us making them feel bad, it's because they just couldn't be bothered to try. Our PE classes were never hyper-competitive and as such, the guys who actually did sport outside of school (me with football, tennis and badminton for example) never really tried to make the others look bad. Hell, if we were playing football, despite being a striker I'd throw myself in defense sometimes and spend the entire game winning the ball back and immediately giving it up to whoever was in the best position. All in all I'd say it helped introduce people to new sports which some found they were actually quite good at; thhe generally quite geeky guy in my class turned out to be a decent Goalkeeper and really quite good at tennis. He's playing tennis in a regional league now I think.
I don't quite know where I'm going with this, and I have an AS Maths exam this afternoon that I should be studying for so basically:
TL;DR: PE r gud. I liek PE. My clas was prety cool. It help 2 introduc kidz 2 sports n excercise n stuff. Now go back up to the top and actually read it you lazy bastard.
I do PDHPE (personal, health, development and physical development education) teahces you a broader range of things (like CPR) and and general Health guidance, quite helpful..
at my high school, gym was about walking around either the school's indoor or outdoor track for forty minutes. so, when i gave it up junior and senior years to take AP classes instead, i feel i didn't miss much. i was a cheerleader and judo instructor, though, so i stayed in shape without it.
this has nothing to do with gym class-sounds to me like you stayed in shape whether you had a gym period or not, and that's what kept you healthy. most fat kids will stay that way whether they move around a little or not; it's a lifestyle choice.mrhappyface said:
The only reason that class even exists is because of fat kids :/ no other explanation unless you take P.E theory where you learn about the human body and stuff. As much as I did like my P.E lessons, I did feel closer to my exams, their was no reason for them expect for actual physical fitness, but surely revising is more important ?mrhappyface said:
That said, living in england, I hate when I see a kid that is not at least above average at playing football, or any other sport for that matter, it's stupid not to be good at sport :/
Someone may have already responded to this so my mistake if that's the case.Explosm said:
In NSW there are two different PE classes for choice in your final years, one is ~80% theory, the other is basically 100% practical. I know this as I am in year 12 in NSW and many of us chose to do one or both of the PE classes, however all but 3 of us dropped the practical PE at the end of year 11.
Also the contents of these practical lessons weren't just sporting games but also more basic training activies like swimming, cross country and gym.
However I'm from a rural area and so we probably have the advantage of better sporting locations and more fit students than Sydney for example.
The hell is PE important! Honestly, I hated it. I was terrible at exercise, and got all that I needed walking two and from school (a total of an hour every day, compared with the 3 hours of PE every 2 weeks). Me and my mates spent our time seeing how far we could push the coach, which led to them pretty much giving up on us.
We also did outdoor sports in the winter, indoor in the summer. Where's the sense in that?
We also did outdoor sports in the winter, indoor in the summer. Where's the sense in that?
that would suck if I had to do PE straight in the morning lol