I wonder what they did with the students who couldn't do that stuff?
shareI think I would rather die.
sharegym class aka the source of about 10% of my emotional trauma and mental scars.
i guess there's a place for something like that, tip of the hat to anyone who can do it, but boy i never want anything to do with it.
i've read coddling of the american mind, and i agree with a lot of the premise, in that we seem to have given over to safetyism far too much, created far too much protection for people, to the extent that grown adults demand protection from ideas they don't like.
but one area i am fine in giving protection to kids is in saving them from the organized humiliation of gym class, a true horror show.
"but one area i am fine in giving protection to kids is in saving them from the organized humiliation of gym class, a true horror show"
Right with you!
Those who can, DO.
Those who can not DO, teach.
And, those who can not teach, teach Gym!
As one who was never athletic or at all interested sports, I've always resented the fact that just because one is born with testicles, he (in school) is supposed to love sports. I don't care for games or feel any need to compete.
Handing a kid a ball, and telling him to "play," when the interest isn't there, makes about as much sense as thinking you can order a kid to play the piano (in the absence of desire and training.)
It just makes no sense to me.
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Dude, there's no way that I could do those things even if I lost 115 pounds!
It is not about everybody being overweight.
My mother was slim as a girl and still sucked at Gym.
Some people are simply not athletic.
I wish my school had that curriculum available! We did a ton of dangerous things similar to that on our own.
Making everyone do it and the color shorts thing is total bullshit though.
You know what'll happen if they do, right? They'll get "cancelled" & called out for "fat shaming" and stuff of that sort.
I'm not for or against this, I'm just saying that we live in a completely different era now. Can't enforce that kinda thing anymore.
We had mandatory gym class in my high school, forty years ago. I hated it, partly because I was no athlete, and partly because the class was run by the school's football coach, who was a real asshole. The class was nothing as hardcore as what the video depicts though. Funny thing, I was also on the school's track team for two years. I was lousy at it but had a lot of fun; the coach was as demanding as any coach but was also a good guy who made it all a positive experience. Sometimes it's about the people.
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