Cory Wrote:Honestly, what the fuck? What is the world coming too when someone who is in their Premenstrual Syndrome is forced to participate in activity that requires an adequate amount of physical activity?

And just the note proves that your mom wanted you to be excused from Phy ed.

Will Wrote:I always sort of wanted to get some major injury like losing an eye for following teachers directions to standing in the path of an energetic ball without having any idea of how to catch it. Maybe people would sort of care when I got injured.

Actually, they probably would just say it was my fault for not knowing how to catch it.

Will Wrote:Bullying was getting quite bad in eighth grade, and none of the faculty to whom I talked helped at all, so I went crazy and killed three people (slight exagerration). I don't really know what would have happened if the atmosphere in high school weren't completely different and bullying hadn't thus stopped all of a sudden when high school started.

anonomous Wrote:i had a problem like that too, i had severe asthma and my parents dragged me to school (which happend to be the day i had to do PE) so i told them to write me a a note saying i has athsma. when i gave my teacher the note she wigned 'that's not a reasonable excuse' , i had an athsma attack and she expects me to do sport!? she accepts excuses like 'oh my sport uniform is in the washing machine' but she regects 'i had an asthma attack yesterday'

Anonymous1.0 Wrote:Now, I can understand the jump rope and the basketball, but how the FUCK did you beat the shit out of someone with a TIRE?

BobManPerson Wrote:

Anonymous1.0 Wrote:Now, I can understand the jump rope and the basketball, but how the FUCK did you beat the shit out of someone with a TIRE?

When they're lying face-up on the ground in pain, the tire is the best weapon for making sure they never have children.

Gabs Wrote:Well this is my first post, and I've never posted before, but one thing to remember about bullies is: They bully people because their insecure about themselves, they've been shamed and humilated(this is normally leading to physical violence), shamed and humilated.... hmmm that couldnt possibly be anything to do with school could it? well, sometimes, sometimes not, but anyhow just remember that. I reccomend taking up a martial art...(Judo imo) yes it may not help you, yes it may be best to simply punch them in the face but at least you feel more confident. after time you'll "master" the techniques, and will deflect punches by instict etc etc,

Darkstripe Wrote:I'm so thankfully I'm in Grade 11 and no longer have to take Gym. It was the worst.

My mom understood my dislike of Gym and there was one time she wrote a note for me saying I'd sprained my ankle and couldn't do Gym today. (Every now and then she'd write me a note) Well, my teacher had noticed me not trying so hard the past few days and knew that was a lie. She DID let me not particpate, but she made me feel stupid, and made me feel really down and upset. She said she knew it wasn't true and that I'd have to start trying harder.

I always notice that at least in my elementary school, the best kids at gym were the ones who hated doing work in class and often super-mean and super-competitive. I hated Gym because I was never good at it. Other kids would try to help me, but treat me like a baby in the process. You know, they explain how to do it yes, but they'd speak slowly and talk as if I were some little kid who didn't understand them.
Lowered my self-esteem it did. -_- I never understood why we needed to do that class almost everyday. Yes being fit and healthy is very important, but just because we don't take PE doesn't mean every kid will be lazy. I love to go out on walks and I feel I am in good shape. They seem to think if you don't take PE, you'll become super-unhealthy. It should have been optional.

I also got hurt a lot in gym. Never as badly as some of you have described, but I was hit a lot by balls. I remember when we played Dodge Ball people would always throw the ball super-hard at me. They say it didn't hurt. Yeah right.

I think a lot of it had to do with my personality. I was never competitive and I disliked the games always seeing them as pointless ways to boost the egos of some of the students.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying Gym is bad. For some people it's their favourite class and I know to some people it's probably great. Maybe I'd have liked it to if I was that kind of person, or if people weren't so cruel.

On a positive note, Gym in Grade Nine was a lot more fun then in Elementary, and I actually quite enjoyed it.

But I'll never take it again!