Your opinion on Gym Class

[hermes]

Its not great, but its necessary. "Mens sana in corpore sano"

Let me put it this way, Gym once a week is not even bare minimum you have to do to stay relatively fit. If you are having trouble with Gym class, you are likely not doing enough outside school. If you don't have any trouble, its a nice change of pace.

 

[w9496]

I always enjoyed gym class, and I'm a little on the husky side. It's really a class where you get out what you put into it.

My school had gym through all of middle school and one year required in high school. It was fun most days, but we had to run a mile every other friday. I hated them at first, but then I got better at them.

Gym class is an important part of school. Team sports and activities promote cooperation and teamwork, while things like mile runs promote overall wellness.

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

Everyone knows about gym, in one way or another, so, I want to hear your opinion about it. To me, it's a waste of time I could be using to learn about the nature of the universe, human mind, mathematics, or how to dance.

Body mechanics is a science, though gym doesn't teach you the theory behind it. It teaches the practical application. Movement with your whole body promotes blood flow, which promotes healthy brain activity. Sitting on your ass all day and studying may be beneficial, but also pools blood in extremities and leads to poorer brain function.
In other words, getting up off your ass and doing gym will help you learn more about those other important things in the long run.
Don't believe me? Just look it up for yourself since we all know what google is.

 

[Scarim Coral]

As long the lesson isn't playing football (I suck and hate it so much that I got my mum to write a letter that I couldn't do it for medical reasons) then I love P.E (what we called Gym class over in the UK). I love playing rounder (baseball), gymnastics (I used to be great at doing the forward roll) and badminton when I was a pro at it.
Beside when the hell would you do that much exercise unless you go to the gym/ excersie quite often.

 

[omega 616]

My school had it and I can count the amount of times I did it in my entire school life on both hands.

I always "forgot my kit" even though if they had checked my bag they would have seen it plain as day.

I understood it was to make you not fat but in school I was a piece of string with knots in and now I'm fat ... I showed them!

As for learning sports, sports aren't hard to learn. In my school they taught tennis, football, rugby, cricket and running.

1) Tennis = don't hit the ball past the furthest line or the inner ones on the side. Don't let it bounce more than once.

2) Football = put this ball in the back of that net. this is the off side rule.

3) Rugby = get this ball past that line. don't pass forward.

4) Cricket = hit and run back and forth. Don't let your sticks get fucked up.

5) Running = not a sport. Cross the line first.

Sure, if they taught something unusual like la cross I would have taken a little interest but I am not into sports. It's all a bit too "GRRR, I'M A MAN!" or "I are teh best!".

 

[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.