School Phys Ed Exemption - Page 3

jazzpants · #51 09-02-2003, 07:11 PM

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Originally posted by Mrs Redboots
This is slightly off-topic, but don't you do PE in school for health and fitness, rather than as an academic discipline? In this country, although schools nowadays seem to do it far less than they did in our day, it is done to enable you to keep fit. In my day it was also done to promote "team spirit", whatever that is, but nowadays it is thought to be bad for the little dears to compete.....

Well...supposedly PE here in California is supposed to promote "fitness" and "good sportmanship."

In reality: HA!!! What "fitness" and "good sportmanship?"

There is NO SUCH THING in public school PE (at least not in SF!) You'd be surprised at the characters that are running the PE classes back when I was in high school! Most of the male PE teachers there were into the "alpha-male" thing and I hated it!!!

I found out about it 15 years after graduating from one of the PE teachers!!! Even *HE* thinks it's a joke! If I knew what I know now back then, I would have continued skating through high school and begged my parents to get me an exemption!

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