Is PE an important class?

[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.

 

[keillord]

Seeing as how the obesity rate in Canada (where I live) has drastically increased. I would say that PE is needed more than ever.

 

[Duck Sandwich]

Exercise is important. Without a healthy body, you can't have that much hope for a healthy brain.

True. It seems as though people believe that there's some dichotomy between people who are smart and excel in academics, but are gravely weak and unfit, and people who are best described by the phrase "brain-dead jocks."

Interesting thing I've learned while doing research for Nutrition class: I found an article detailing a test where people did a session of running, then were tested on critical thinking and memory. There was also a group of people that did the same test, except without the running beforehand. The people who ran did better on the tests, as (I can't remember the exact reason - it may have been increased blood flow and/or heart rate) they had a heightened sense of awareness.

Proper physical exercise and nutrition (which any Gym class worth its salt will emphasize) is important, regardless of what career path you decide to follow.

Spoiler: My personal experiences with Gym class

I always got good marks in Gym class (high 80/low 90's). Was I physically fit? Hell no. I couldn't even do proper pushups, and I had no chance in hell of ever making it on a Cross Country team. So why did I get good marks? Possibly because I was one of the only people who actually gave a shit.

I saw Gym class as my best chance of getting in shape, seeing as how I wasn't good enough to actually make it on any sports teams, and I had no access to an actual gym outside of school.

Unfortunately, as I said before, there were few people (even among the teachers) who cared much. I remember once a teacher told us to run on the spot for 1 minute. 18 seconds later (yes, I timed it) he told us to stop. And often when we were told to go running, I ran ahead of nearly everyone else, despite being known as one of the slowest runners in the class.

But as rare as the teachers who actually gave a shit were, they did exist. Through one of them, I was introduced to Kickboxing, which then led me to doing serious martial arts training, which was a major life-changing point, and is very much a huge defining part of who I am now.

 

[crazyjay321]

...with the waster's or the "jock's"...

English, the wasters would be the lazy "I can't do sports so I'll just flop around or 'be cool' and just stand still" guys. They're annoying because in a team game they fuck it up for their whole team.

The "jocks" in English are the guys in the school sports teams who think they are better than everyone else because they are in the sports teams; and they act like it's true. They're called, colloquially, cunts.

Sorry by waster's I meant the chav's who are just wagging/skipping any lesson besides sport's, or where they get to use drills and wanna play just to play rough and have a go at you if you do a single thing wrong, I know what jock's are there is no reason to explain that.

 

[theSovietConnection]

It depends entirely on the program. I'm in a Law Enforcement related program, so as such it is a very important class. However, I assume you're refering to high school, where I still say it is a good class to have. The problem isn't with the class itself in high school, it's with the people in the class.

 

[Ironic Pirate]

We had gym till 8th grade. We played dodgeball and matball and loved the shit out of that class.

In 8th grade it became PE. We took tests on muscle groups, and fo "fun" we lift weights.

Occasionally we play dodgeball, but it's usually a shitty "variety" dodgeball that takes ten minutes to explain, and all the good dodgeballs have been ripped apart anyway.


I miss Gym.

EDIT: I also have horrible depth perception thank to my shitty left eye, so games with catching (other than dodgeball, I can dodge but I often dodge balls that weren't anywhere near me) as an integral element are nothing more than an episode in futile embarassment.

 

[SextusMaximus]

Completely agree. PE is as important as science, english and maths. If not more, you need good physical health for
r life!

 

[Tomster595]

I hate PE. I don't know about everywhere else, but in my school, its total BS. You never get a real work out or anything. I might break a sweat in that class like once a month. Just a waste of time. Perhaps if it was more organized, I'd like it.

 

[LightspeedJack]

I didn't mind P.E. if it was stuff like basketball but rugby? In December? In shorts? Being the skinniest kid in the class? You must be out of your fuckin' mind.

 

[IckleMissMayhem]

Lemme see... my over-riding memory of PE was mainly standing around 'playing' netball or rounders (Stupid too-traditional all-girls' HS... >.<). In fact, I reckon I got more exercise getting changed into and out of my PE kit so, unsurprisingly enough, I don't think all that much of PE lessons.

I did loads of active things outside of school though, so it wasn't like I was one of the fat kids who were dodging the lessons.