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Gym and Health both suck!
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Gym and Health both suck!

I hate gym. All that ever happens is that I'm thinking of solutions to problems in my programming scripts instead of thinking about boring crap they call Sports, then someone makes a sarcastic comment about me. Can't we have alternatives?

We get to take Health in the 2nd marking period (the one I'm in now) but I hate health because it's just marajuanna lies and stuff I already know.

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Sports are just an alternative to a far more entertaining yet more bloody form of physical competition.

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Colosseum battles in school? I'm down.
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My health class required that I do community service. I completely bombed on that and I still passed anyway. Pretty pointless class I agree. All it was was writing down stuff from the board onto your notebook and occasionally a movie.

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Hell, I'd be up for beating one another with those sticks that have the foam stuff on the ends. The only armor being a helmet and some light chest armor.

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Gym and Health both suck!

I wish I know as much about marijuana when I took health 2 years ago as opposed to know. I would make my teacher rue those days...

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RE: Gym and Health both suck!

Don't get me started on my fucking health teacher.

She covered two weeks of material in the whole six weeks. She wasted so much time.....

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PE for me wasn't exactly terrible but it wasn't the greatest either.

When it was (usually) warm and not raining out we went outside. We had a fairly good track and field with bleachers and equipment, and a small but varied indoor gym. At the time, I certainly could have used exercise, it's just that I was not in a good state of mind partially thanks to school, and not in the mood for running around and exerting myself. Again, sometimes it wasn't terribly bad. We did a variety of activities and the teachers weren't that shitty, even if I heard they practiced favoritism somewhat.

I didn't care for a number of the activities though, principal among them being square dancing. God almighty. For anyone who may face this: be prepared to listen to Cotton Eye Joe. There was also this cross between baseball and soccer where we kicked a dodgeball as hard as we could and then made a ran for a base.

I resented the running sessions along the track, yet walking is one of my favorite and principal activities today. Go figure. I wasn't very healthy back then, but, again, school was pressing down on me rather hard by the last year.

We also had computerized fitness trackers, Presidential Fitness Tests (Obama can do 15 crunches. Can you?) and a school competition that may or may not have been related in which I did poorly in the 50m sprint.

We had volleyball competitions and field hockey. We had to wear goggles during the latter, and for me that meant either wearing them and my glasses at the same time or just wearing the goggles. I had an outburst in class about this; I suppose in retrospect I was lucky all I got was a verbal reprimand.

I always had to change in private in the gym locker room. I can understand why we had to wear different clothes but it was still a hassle to change ASAP and get to lunch. Good thing I got it down to an art eventually; I loved being one of the first to lunch.

I remember I had some health studies in PE (which weren't too bad themselves) and a general 'health' class where the nurse would come in and talk with us about health. What I remember most are lies about marijuana and doing projects on drugs that were actually bad. Me and a couple friends chose meth (as our project obviously).

They say the road to Hell is paved with good intentions, and I think my physical education was a sign of that.
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Trar, did your school require you to buy PE uniforms from the school? My school district has an unbelievably massive hard-on of forcing students to buy gym clothes from the school. If you didn't buy from the school, you'd fail PE. Not joking. I'll assume it's another way the school tried to make profit off students.

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We were required to have gym-appropriate clothes, which my family could not provide, but a lady came and asked me what I needed at no expense. So my clothes were provided for me. I may still have one or two of the articles somewhere. For that matter, I was lucky my school didn't do that sort of blatant profiteering, or have science textbooks sponsored by motherfucking Exxon-Mobil or a giant Pepsi billboard on the walls, ala Colorado Springs.

Also in Colorado Springs: a student was suspended for flashing a Pepsi shirt during an event where the student body was told to stand together and wear Coke shirts so they could be photographed from the air.

You know, now that I think about it my school wasn't as bad as some of the other schools I read about on here, but it was still bad in its own ways. There was another middle school across town that had a bad rap, mostly bomb threats. I remember walking past a cheerleader from their basketball team after-hours once and hearing her say that she hated my school. Amen to that Razz
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For P.E, we paid for our clothes, P.E sucked for not entirely because I suck at sports. I do, but I don't dislike playing some sports, mainly dodge ball. What sucked for me was two things, running (which I can barley do for any extended period of time) and everyone else. When I was a freshman, everyone had to take P.E, the same course, and as a result, a couple of my friends were there. When I was a sophomore, I somehow manage to get a class, filled with Jocks that I already knew, who already hated my guts...and I think you could guess the rest.

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So fucking glad I stopped having to do P.E. at the start of this year.
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Physical activity is still important. I wish I did more of it back then; wouldn't have as much weight to lose now if I did! I could've walked to and from school, but I only started doing it occasionally by the end of my last year! Ah...

Regardless of your attitude towards PE(which, yes, can and has probably made attitudes towards physical exercise worse), you'd do well to be active anyhow. Razz
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Part of the reason I hate school is that reason: I don't have time to exercise. School eats up most of the day and right now it's winter time, in which by the time you get out it's getting dark and you're freezing your balls off.

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If I can register early enough(I've got a hold on my account due to some small issues that can only be resolved with time), the only PE I'll be doing in college for spring is learning to Tango.

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RE: Gym and Health both suck!

(12-09-2013 03:59 PM)Hansgrohe Wrote:  Trar, did your school require you to buy PE uniforms from the school? My school district has an unbelievably massive hard-on of forcing students to buy gym clothes from the school. If you didn't buy from the school, you'd fail PE. Not joking. I'll assume it's another way the school tried to make profit off students.

What?! You couldn't just wear shorts and a t? Greedy bastards.

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I'm not joking. School PE clothing only. I really wish I was, but I've had PE at my high school, so I know the measures.

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RE: Gym and Health both suck!

(12-09-2013 10:07 AM)Gwedin Wrote:  Colosseum battles in school? I'm down.

This makes me think of the Pokemon kind, lol

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(12-09-2013 10:07 AM)Gwedin Wrote:  Colosseum battles in school? I'm down.

It'd be fun to see what would happen at my school.

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(12-17-2013 10:30 AM)Hansgrohe Wrote:  
(12-09-2013 10:07 AM)Gwedin Wrote:  Colosseum battles in school? I'm down.

It'd be fun to see what would happen at my school.

Lol. Probably a bunch of those pussy "OH WUT YOU SAY MAH GF'S FAT ILL FUKING KILL U *proceeds into what could be confused as a hug war with the other person*" kind of fights.
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Oh, even worse. At my school there are a lot of "swaggot" and "fake gangsta" types of kids. It'd be immensely entertaining to see the result.

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Dang. I feel you dawg. People at my school are either ego-inflated assholes or sons and daughters of farmers (it's a small, ruralish town).
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I got away with wearing a t-shirt, sneakers and shorts in my PE.

My last school was one of the middle schools for a relatively big city in the area, so I saw some diverse people there. There were one or two 'fake gangstas' and there was some 'swagging' going on (which I am sorry to say I participated in) but it wasn't too out of hand as far as I can recall.
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I think part of the reason my school enforced the "buy a PE uniform" was because of the concern that kids not from the school would participate in the classes and sell drugs to students (which, unfortunately, actually has happened during lunchtime, but I've never heard of it during P.E.), but like I said, I've never heard of a kid going into a PE class and selling drugs to anyone. That's essentially bullshit. Plus, the teacher would probably see the kid from a mile away.

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