Writer's Block: Sweat it out
Feb. 19th, 2011 07:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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No. It's too much of an invitation to bullying, to exclusion, to leaving kids out of things, to judging people by what they look like and how much coordination they have, rather than on who they are as people. I believe that HEALTH education should be mandatory, but under no circumstances should kids ever be forced to change and/or shower with other people if they don't wish to.
Phys Ed in my school was a joke, an easy A, with almost no actual physicality required. I don't even remember having to have gym clothes for my high school gym class because it was so low-impact. We learned how to play every sport poorly and had tests on things like what a 'birdie' was in golf.
Bottom line: It's open season for bullies at worst and completely and utterly useless at best.
No. It's too much of an invitation to bullying, to exclusion, to leaving kids out of things, to judging people by what they look like and how much coordination they have, rather than on who they are as people. I believe that HEALTH education should be mandatory, but under no circumstances should kids ever be forced to change and/or shower with other people if they don't wish to.
Phys Ed in my school was a joke, an easy A, with almost no actual physicality required. I don't even remember having to have gym clothes for my high school gym class because it was so low-impact. We learned how to play every sport poorly and had tests on things like what a 'birdie' was in golf.
Bottom line: It's open season for bullies at worst and completely and utterly useless at best.
