Your opinion on Gym Class

[Doclector]

Gym class is actually pretty important. Its proven that physical activity does a great job of promoting learning and helps students who have difficulties with it. Also with rising obesity rates we should be encouraging kids to get exercise everyday to stay healthy. Plus its can be a good relaxant, doing physical activities helps people deal with stress and get into a better mindset.

THe way they do it does nothing of the sort. True, that's the concept, but the execution essentially says "let's laugh at the freaks who can't do sports well". Even the fucking teachers are at it.

And now that's one more person I want to murder. Today's going just great.

 

[HK_01]

I think that in theory it's really important to have gym in school. It's a break and it ensures that the students get at least some physical activity in their lives. However, the way it is usually done (at least in Germany) is less than ideal. It's very boring and does not encourage the students to really participate, so there's a lot of room for improvement.

There's also the aspect that I personally don't like sports, but I still see its importance.

 

[Kellogs Fried Chickn]

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.

The way I had gym experience, yeah, cancel that. It was an excuse to give certain people jobs, and give children meaningless exercises so they wouldn't get any fatter.

I don't support leaving 'gym' out of the curriculum, but I do think it's pointless more often than not. Gym needs to be coupled with teaching dietary and lifestyle. More - from the base of none - on teaching them why these things are important and how to start doing them, and less 'team sports' and 'laps' and the like.

 

[Assassin Xaero]

I think it is important, or the being physical part of it, at least, especially considering how fat kids are these days. I do think that they should have different gym classes offered, because some people really like sports and others (like me) don't really care for them.

Personally, I think English class is a pretty big waste of time after elementry/some middle school. In high school, we had to take more English than anything. Ok, so we need to learn how to write papers and take notes for high school, then in high school they teach you how to write papers/take notes for college (I never had to, but I went to a community college), then in college you take notes and write papers for...? Maybe I'm just an exception to it because I became a software developer (most I ever write is an email to my project manager), but even then, I cannot even think of a real-world reason for having to write a paper in MLA format.

 

[Rastien]

I loved gym (P.E) in England.

I was quiet in school so when it came round to rugby season gave me a chance to shine!

Nothing quite like cutting the school dick head in 2 with a crushing tackle because he decided to run straight at me because he was "the biggest" and no one tackled him.

Even remembering this is bringing back great memories xD ran straight at me the fool. Dump tackled him i got to my feet, whats that? your holding onto the ball still and your off your feet BRILLIANT stamp stamp stamp. Suddenly he releases the ball and i proceed to crash down the sideline for a try ^^.

Since then the rules have changed your no longer allowed to "Stamp/Rake/Shoe" someone who doesn't release the ball. But if someone has hands on the ball in a ruck chances are your arms are getting raked.

But yeah i feel P.E and Gym are crucial in schools, childhood obesity is on the rise and it's great for team building and relieving stress etc.

Friggen hate Football (soccer for yanks)i personally find it the most boring ass dull game to play and watch ever T-T when it came to house Football i just used to dick around. I got nominated captain of the football team just to wind up the "pro" football player in our house that was fun!

They went for a penalty, the ball was flying at my face so i punched it away, then got into an argument with the P.E teacher who wanted to award a goal for me dicking around. >:C

I wasn't allowed to play house football again after that, Fantastic!.

 

[IamQ]

While physical activity is good and important, I've always hated it. If I had gym class at the end of the day, then it was okay, but most of the time I had it in the morning. This was bad for several reasons.

1. I'm lazy, and don't want to go up early.
2. You have to spend the rest of the classes afterwards feeling sweaty, because you didn't shower in the school showers, because they are about as clean as the arsehole of a cow.
3. You will be tired during the class afterward, and most likely not pay any attention what so ever to what is happening.

 

[Stu35]

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.

I think PE(Physical Education, what we in Britain refer to 'Gym class' as) should be mandatory 3 x 1 hour lessons a week, minimum.

Obesity and a general lack of physical health are a huge problem for first world nations. Furthermore there's plenty of research that suggests that physical fitness and wellbeing have a direct influence on peoples overall levels of happiness, and concentration.

Of course, "Dance" Can be included in Physical Education.

At our School we played a lot of Rugby Union, Rugby League, Association Football for PE (lazy teachers), although we did get the occasional circuits, gymnastics, street dance, and field hockey lesson...

We had a Basketball team for a while as well, but there were only about 5-6 people who wanted to do it, all of whom were on the Rugby team and therfore unavailable on Wednesday afternoons to play games.

I spent a couple of months playing Field Hockey with the girls because I refused to play Football (I bled Rugby, and went through a rebellious phase of despising everything about football to the point that, when we played it one lesson, I got put in Net (as always), and simply punched the first opponent who tried to come into the 18 yard box).

 

[BlackStar42]

Also the Beep Test, who else didn't despise them with a passion?

That bastard thing.

Luckily, you weren't required to get a certain score or anything, so I always used to deliberately fail as soon as it got beyond a slow jog. I didn't care at all, and the teachers must've known that, but they never brought it up.

I didn't like doing sports at all, but in our last two years we got to do karate, which I loved- partly because I was good at it, and partly because our teacher was crazy awesome.

 

[SquidVicious]

I mostly enjoyed PE when I was in school, the only time I didn't like it was when we played games like baseball. I wasn't never particularly good at the game and I disliked how all eyes were on you, that kind of pressure sucks. Games like hockey, football, and soccer are a lot more fun because you can keep moving at least look like you're doing something useful. As soon as I was a sophomore and could take weights class I did that and never looked back.

 

[AnarchistFish]

I liked PE. Was something refreshing compared to all the dull monotonous work on hard plastic seats throughout the rest of the day.

 

[attackshark]

i would replace gym class with martial arts class, and it would be required daily for no less than 70 minutes.

 

[rdaleric]

I enjoyed P.E. at school for a few reasons:

1) Turned out for a skinny nerd I was pretty good at rugby,basketball and athletics
2) I got some revenge on the kids who bullied me via bone crunching tackles

 

[SquidVicious]

If anything kids need to be doing a lot of what you suggest but with a physical output. I would like to see an autoshop class, workshop class, cooking class all comeback into schools. Because while exercising the mind with the fundamentals is great, the skills you really need to survive and become a productive member of society requires actually practicing and performing the physical tasks themselves. That is why there is such a generation gap between people who are self sufficient and those that are too reliant on either technology or consumer services where they can't even cook a hamburger or change the oil in their car.

I would also like to see these come back as required classes rather than electives. I live in an old house that's very close to the University and as such the landlord advertises for students, with me being the exception because I've been here for four years when I was a student, but stayed because he liked my handy work. So we always have rotating roommates who stay for a semester or two and leave, and in my four years I have not had a single one who knew how to cook, do any kind of DIY, or any basic car repairs. These are very basic skills that you should have to make your life easier, and not just in saving money, but skills like these look good on a resume and right now it is skills and experience that employers are looking for, not always education. Yet cooking, auto, and shop are always the classes that are first up on the cutting block when budget cuts come in, and I can understand why, but I really do think that as these classes become more and more niche, we're going to find a large population of people who don't really know how to do anything except take tests and write papers.

 

[Vivi22]

It would be better if they actually taught you how to keep your body in shape... Knowing about how your body functions and how to keep it in shape, both mentally and physically (shock! Your brain is a part of your body too!!) is actually pretty damn important.

I completely agree with this actually. Although the real shame of it is that even if they switched it to do that, the government would inevitably mandate the curriculum. And based on what the US, Canadian and other governments seem to know about health, nutrition, and physical activity from what they already recommend to the general population, I don't think they're very qualified to create a curriculum that's actually useful.

One guy on the first page mentioned that kids can't learn if they're too busy monitoring their blood sugar levels. Ironically, if they knew how to appropriately control their blood sugar levels they not only wouldn't be fat (or at least not nearly as fat), they'd probably be able to focus better and wouldn't develop diabetes and need to monitor blood sugar.

 

[karloss01]

PE (Physical education) as its known in the UK was a waste of time for me as the Teachers didn't bother teaching us anything. we played a either football or ruby and did it poorly. I never liked sports and with this waste I just stopped bringing my kit in. i'd rather read a text book then run around in a field in the rain because its the teachers' job to do so.

though eventually my friends felt the same and got the teacher to agree to allow us to have a ball and just fuck around for the hour they had us instead of being the dumb-fucks that are the jocks with their hands down their pants shouting lewd comments at the girls in the other class.

 

[TeletubbiesGolfGun]

I loved it. Although I might be slightly biased, because sports is basically my "thing". Sure I couldn't shoot a basketball, or a soccer ball, or handle a frisbee that well, but I was fast enough that it really didn't matter. Although after grade 10 it isn't compulsory where I come from, it's an easy 4 credits for those who didn't take a very full courseload.

Also the Beep Test, who else didn't despise them with a passion?

Captcha: make my day, yes I suppose it did.

that fucking beep test. i hated how there was no winning/beating the damn thing. i got to 114 one time and i just laid down in pissed off frustration with it. (granted that was probably the best shape of my life at the time.)

OT: I think it's a great requirement up until a certain age, probably 15-16, then it should be an elective.

granted, i think this about every class, i fucking despised english with a passion after 7th-8th grade, but it was some other kids strengths so i couldn't be too mad i suppose.

as many have pointed it out, i had it bright and early in the morning which sucked, me being the person i am, i sweat and i'm always hot, so adding gym to that i'd basically sweat for hours at a time after that class which blew major ass.

 

[Robeltu]

I like it, it's healthy competition and makes me exercise more than I do at home

 

[Froggy Slayer]

I never really enjoyed it, because I was the skinny, nerdy kid who couldn't do sport for shit. I still go to the gym at least once every week now that I'm in the school Sixth Form, and I find it a lot more satisfying without any constant comparison to the other, fitter guys in my school.