<p>Our PE is such a joke even the athletic kids like me don’t try. Unless we’re playing certain games. But yeah the athletic kids dominate all those anyways.</p>
<p>haha so the general consensus is that P.E. is a waste of time :)</p>
<p>i thought the two years required at my school was a lot, but 4 years??!!!
that would suck!</p>
<p>Why don’t you nerds just play sports? I never had to do PE because I’m always in a sport.</p>
<p>^ Well let’s turn that around a bit. I’m a baseball player committed to a D1 school who can only get exempt from gym for one quarter because baseball’s only a spring sport, even though I play throughout the fall on a travel organization and lift 3x a week all year round. You can bet that I get a little pishy at the fact that I have to get to school early for 1st period badminton.</p>
<p>^^ Wasn’t that the whole issue? I ran for all three seasons and lifted three times a week but I still had to take gym my senior year. </p>
<p>Of course, I had a hell of a good time, so I’m not complaining. Being a senior in gym was great. We only needed to take 2 semesters worth (plus health), so it wasn’t bad at all.</p>
<p>reasons why some people don’t play sports
well in my case, I have orchestra, which takes up plenty of my time.
along with extracurriculars.
and academics.
hard to find room for sports and orchestra.
i envy those who can.</p>
<p>School: Is it really necessary if you’re already smart?</p>
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<p>My gym teacher graded on “effort.” AKA did you change your clothes for PE? And cut fewer than 10 times? haha…</p>
<p>Does anyone else find it really strange/ironic/frustrating when their gym/health teachers are, like, fat? LIKE, I’m in better shape than you!!!</p>
<p>My school requires 2 years and even if you’re a triple athlete you can’t get out of it. It’s really pointless too. Good for socializing though. Once my teacher made us just walk around the football field for the whole class period. My shoes and socks got completely wet from dew and it was the most boring thing ever… This is why I hate PE. I go to the gym like 5 days/wk for like 70 min/workout, but I still hate PE–not exercise, PE. So stupid. Athletic kids are already in shape; non-athletic kids aren’t gonna suddenly start exercising b/c they’re forced to walk around the football field. The really ironic thing was when we did a “yoga” unit and the last ten minutes of class consisted of lying on a mat and de-stressing. I was like, I’d be a lot less ****ing stressed if I could study for my upcoming test instead of, you know, LYING HERE. Doing nothing.</p>
<p>Also I hate health. I have to take it at 7:30AM. Wouldn’t it be a TON more healthy if instead of “learning” that marijuana makes you feel happy, or that sleep is important, I could be, you know, SLEEPING???</p>
<p>//rant</p>
<p>Haha I could go on about this at any time, any place, any where.</p>
<p>I LOVE complaining. : D</p>
<p>OK wow.
I just wrote like an essay about how much I hate PE…</p>
<p>My gym classes are required only if you do not do a sport in/out of school. Freshmen are required to take 2 quarters of health, and for the rest of high school, 4 semesters of PE are required, and in-season athletes don’t have to go to those classes, but are signed up for them for when their season ends. But we get cool-ish electives like yoga and strength training, so if you’re not super athletic, you survive. Plus, they’re pass/fail :)</p>
<p>In my experience…</p>
<p>In shape kids take advantage of the standards brought down by the out of shape kids and barely try at all while still maintaining an A.
Out of shape kids just sit around doing nothing and somehow pull off a C.</p>
<p>ie. No one gains anything from P.E.</p>
<p>It’s such a waste. The fata**es of my school skip gym or don’t put any effort in the class at all. And for the rest of us, it’s just like recess back in elementary school (except for the agilities the former drill-sergeant makes us do at the beginning of class). So, the class doesn’t add anything valuable to anyone’s day. </p>
<p>I’d rather have that period to take another language or something.</p>
<p>wait is it just me or do you guys have like real gyms at your school? As in with equipment? Isn’t there a class you can take to just use the equipment if you say you already go to the gym.</p>
<p>PE was fun. I wish that my school required more of it, so I’d have an excuse to take a gym class as a senior.</p>
<p>Let’s be honest. You get to play basketball, ultimate, soccer, tennis, or whatever your heart desires, and you get a grade for it? Count me in every time. And like people above said, if you’re in decent shape, it’s not even straining at all to play against the out of shape kids. It’s just an all-around fun time.</p>
<p>well we have a gym with equipment, but people use it as a cooling room, the lazy people the school is made of</p>
<p>I was thinking about this, and I decided to make [a</a> schematic](<a href=“http://i206.■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■/albums/bb26/Iam3elliott/PEgrading.png]a”>http://i206.■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■/albums/bb26/Iam3elliott/PEgrading.png) to show how PE misses the point.</p>
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<p>I too think PE/Health are a waste of my time. It’s not that I hate exercise, no, I actually quite enjoy running around, and doing things that make me healthy, it’s just that they take away from classes I’d rather be doing.</p>
<p>I agree with BigKev - I really miss gym class! I go to a small school where, once you get into 7th grade, you either have to play a sport each season or take a fitness class, because otherwise we wouldn’t be able to field teams. While everyone probably gets more out of it by having a team experience they might not otherwise, I really wish we still had regular gym class. Then again, I would play three seasons of sports regardless of whether or not it was a requirement. I still miss recess and would love the chance to relive it a couple times a week, albeit in a more structured environment. It’s nice to play for fun and not have all the pressure of having to do well placed on you.</p>
<p>Oh no we might have to run a mile! FUUUUU-</p>