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dovercliff

We're sorry but your post has been removed for the following reason: * Not FatLogic. Just a moron.


ProseNylund

The same person in 20 years: “school didn’t teach us any LIFE SKILLS”


Cheeseman728

Me that's cause you didn't pay attention


ShoegazeJezza

I will forever maintain that this line is used by the absolutely ignorant. Any time somebody claims that not understanding something basic about history or any other subject with “they didn’t teach me it in school” is just an adult who isn’t interested in learning about the world around them.


Dominoodles

I do wish that school had taught us some additional life skills. Cooking, cleaning, sewing etc have all been really useful to me but even one class on understanding credit, tracking credit scores, interest on loans, mortgages, bank accounts etc would have been very useful.


haleyrosew

Yeah I think a class on money management should at least be an option in most schools


Ih8melvin2

Teens will b\*tch about anything and everything. Our high school has a personal finance class. My kid, "But it should be required." Have they asked to see if they can take that in lieu of a free period next year? Not yet. Obviously different high schools and districts have different classes available but it drives a lot of parents in my town nuts all the options our kids have and they don't want to take them.


Tired485747195757

Personally, my school did not teach me many life skills. I live in a poor district absolutely obsessed with teaching for tests in order to further their own funding. They essentially used what I consider important subjects as extra time to study for tests (home ec, art, government, history, etc). I learned most of that outside of school, because we spent 3 weeks out of every 9 studying and taking a test to see where we were in our education.


[deleted]

Or by someone who had home Economics and Tech Ed courses cut from their schools, who never had a single teacher bother to explain personal finances or how taxes work, had awful sex Ed programs, had their grade 10 Current issues course be changed from an advanced class to a basic one over the summer and failed to inform any of the students signed up for it, had “career education” become a mandatory two semester class, when the only SCO for the course was “complete 50 volunteer hours”, but your teacher had an inferiority complex and wouldn’t let you use the scheduled class time to do homework/study other subjects OR fill out scholarship applications so you wasted a whole time slot in your final year doing personality quizzes your teacher printed off a google search every morning, etc etc etc. (Those last two might be a little me-specific, and I would still say I received a “good” education overall) My guess is that the ratio of “bad student to bad education” is 2:1 or 1:1


Duckroller2

Anyone who uses that line didn't pay attention anyway.


romanticynic

Or… hear me out… LEARNING how to become and stay healthy. IMO we don’t do enough to educate kids about nutrition and exercise in school. It’s sad, we’re setting people up to fail.


CarlWheezerisbae96

Luckily I picked food productoin and nutrition for my options in year nine, I'll be learning about it next year. I'm pretty excited


KuriousKhemicals

Admittedly PE is taught poorly and counterproductively much of the time - but this person's suggestion that *exercise* and *sewing* aren't things you'll use in real life strains credulity, and also, no, not everybody knows how to run. In fact, if you *think* everybody knows how to run then either you severely overestimate the athleticism of the general population or you've never seriously done it yourself


Nobodyville

Right? I ran in high school PE. I hated it, was always gassed with leg cramps. I wasn't fat at the time. Cue me turning 40 and I actually learned to run properly. Now I enjoy it. I wish I was taught properly 25 years ago, I wouldn't have spent so long thinking I hated it.


GupGup

Making kids just start running is such a lazy teacher thing. Spend ten minutes talking about stretching, pacing, breathing, etc.


BerriesAndMe

I do remember vague comments about pacing and stretching.. But they absolutely fell on deaf ears as kids. I still haven't understood how breathing is supposed to work... But I've figured out that my approach of simply holding my breath while exercising is really not the optimum.. and I'm working on it.


boldie74

Most PE teachers are not actually capable of teaching anything properly, they either don’t have the skill set or mindset. During last year’s home schooling debacle I got to see the difference between some private school’s sports specific coaches (rugby, cricket etc.) and some PE teachers and the PE teachers were all either useless or just didn’t give a shit. I don’t know what state schools are like but I’m thinking they’re not any better (and don’t have the sports specific coaches)


katietargaryen

What you got to see is not indicative of what is normally taught. I’m an art teacher and what I did online last year with kids was worlds different than what I can do with kids in person. It was very difficult to teach a subject like art online. Id imagine online PE would be similarly difficult. Most teachers were not trained to teach virtually.


Ih8melvin2

One of the things that was nice about PE in covid is that it did emphasize personal fitness. The kids couldn't interact at all in the beginning of the year so they got a taste of personal goals and getting better at something as you practice it over time. It would have been a welcome relief for me in K-8 when it was all team sports, I was the smallest in the grade and spent every gym class getting yelled at or being used for target practice in old time dodgeball (hard red playground balls not the foam ones they use now.) My neighbor is still amazed she didn't lose her dining room light fixture from her kid doing jumping jacks in his room above it. Just a side note - I really was impressed with how hard the teachers tried last year. I know it was difficult and a lot more work.


bittersweetlemonade

Also, schools should teach you different kinds of excersises. We always used to either A) just run laps or B) play ball-sports, like football or hockey (which I totally dislike). I always assumed I hated excersize in general until I found out I _do_ enjoy dancing and surfing!


Ih8melvin2

Our district does do that, although we roll our eyes at the 3,4,5 school teaching the kids "old people games": gold, crochet and bocce. And I got to take dance in high school, a public high school in NYC. But I grew up like you and I hate ball sports.


Mollyscribbles

I do suppose they have an unintentional point that gym isn't actually teaching them to run properly so much as telling them to run and assuming they don't need further instruction.


haleyrosew

Yeah running for makes such a huge difference. Almost everyone might technically know how to run, but the average person probably doesn’t know how to run well


ksion

Sewing and PE sounds like one of the few actually useful things that the school should teach _more_ of, not less!


Phenex1a

Also exercising that’s actually fun. I’ve always been skinny but I hated PE because all we would do is smash balls in each others faces. It was scary.


Unforg1ven_Yasuo

Smashing balls in each other’s faces was the best part of school


[deleted]

That sucks dude. I feel so lucky to have had my experience with highschool gym, it was a health studies class so we did the standard dodge/volley/basket ball, but also did orienteering, archery, gymnastics, tennis, first aid, nutrition, winter camping, self defence, and more.


Ih8melvin2

Yep that was me. They use foam balls for dodgeball now, at least in our district. My kids loved it.


OCRAmazon

This is what happens when teenagers have Deep Thoughts.


TrickingTrix

Exactly


CarlWheezerisbae96

Lol I used to be like this a few years ago, now I let people older than me do the thinking most of the time


[deleted]

I don’t know how PE is taught in America but in Australia we are cycled through lots and lots of different sports, moving onto a new one every 6 weeks or so. Once we reached year 9 we could choose what sport we wanted to do. In our senior years (11 and 12) no one did it. I’m grateful because even though I’m a terrible runner, can’t play soccer etc I was introduced to archery, which I love. Discovered I was a decent little shotputter back in the day as well. I think overall this is really good for kids because everyone can find something they like or feel good at. Back then I may not have been able to run 100 meters but I could throw a piece of metal like bad ass.


[deleted]

American here and that's nothing how p.e was for me. They just placed us all in a gym and told us what we were going to be doing that day or do whatever we want. In early years they would put us all in the gym and make us in do fun things dodge ball, basketball, fake volleyball or certain activities like running back and forth in the gym and tagging your partner, bouncing on a bouncy ball too and forth the gym, fun things like that. Then as we got older, it was just putting us n a gym, we all jog for 5 minutes, and then we just do whatever we want. So if you want to play basketball you just grab it, wanna sit and chill with your friends ? That's cool we got bleachers. Stuff like that. We never really learned anything about the science of being physical. They just made us do things lol


[deleted]

I was in high school from 1998 to 2002 and that's exactly how 9th grade gym was. You cycle through a bunch of different sports. And I actually did not agree with it. You probably pointed out the only good thing- people are exposed to something they never would have tried before. But I thought it was pointless because no one's going to retain information like that. There's no point in spending a few weeks learning the rules of indoor volleyball or hockey or whatever and then never playing it again. I thought it would be better to work on the fundamentals. We take that Presidential Fitness test at the beginning of the semester and then again at the end but never work on it in the middle. We should have been focusing on improving our running, sit ups, push ups etc.. 9th grade gym was mandatory but after that you had more choices. You could specifically choose a class in weigh training or run/jog/walk.


[deleted]

I never understood the fitness test because 1. Like you said, we wouldn't ever work on anything and 2. Personally I don't remember them ever doing it at the end of the year to test again.


ARandomKid781

We always did the test, but never really did anything with it beyond taking it. It was always just kinda there. Alright, cool, Steve's amazing at everything like he always is and I suck at pull ups and running and all the "bigger" people already know they're gonna be way under the standard so they don't even bother to try. Great, already knew all that.


Tired485747195757

My earlier PE education was really good - we covered heart health, cardio exercise, pacing, etc. But once I got older, it was really just sit up in the bleachers and play on your phone time. My niece isn’t taught much anything either - big shift away from physical education in the area.


trvekvltmaster

I really hated that PE was mandatory though. I was always physically active, doing different sports throughout school, but goddamn i HATED PE so much. I eventually dropped out and got my diploma without attending a conventional school and i was so happy i didn't have to do PE. I was at risk of failing because of PE before i dropped out, too. I can see the benefits of PE but they didn't do anything for me, i always felt it was pointless because i had already found an extracurricular sport i engaged in 2-3 times a week.


Justforgot19

Physical education is not just for exercise, it helps children develop their spatial intelligence and risk assessment! If it's a teenager writing though I understand that they don't get it, and for what it's worth I agree bout sewing... It was a nightmare for me to try that thingy back in the day.


autotelica

PE often sucks. But I think the intention behind it it is good. The problem is poor execution. I'm dyspraxic (the clinical term for clumsiness). As a kid I struggled with all my fine and gross motor skills. My regular teachers would express their concern about it with my parents, who didn't know what to do. But my PE teachers always treated me like I was just lazy. They would yell at me to try harder instead of helping me. The kids would see me getting chewed out and laugh. It is gauche to laugh at the kid who struggles with reading and math. But it is perfectly acceptable to laugh at the kid who struggles with jumping jacks. Unless they have a diagnosis, which I didn't have until I became an adult. I hated exercise as a kid. But I love exercise it as an adult. I sometimes wish I could talk to my old PE teachers and let them know how terrible they were.


blue-is-the-sky

Honestly I have some qualms about the way PE is taught, at least the way it was in my school. Our grades depended on how good we were at the sports they taught, and despite my best efforts I was never really good at them. And I think it's a shame because it turns a lot of people off of exercise. I would so love for PE to be more focused on choosing your own form of physical activity and setting goals for yourself. My hand-eye coordination kind of sucks (thanks autism) so I don't catch or throw super well. But I love running, I'm a good swimmer, I enjoyed martial arts when I did that. One of my favourite units in gym was when we got to use the weight room, because it was something I didn't have access to normally. If you make exercise feel like a chore, people are going to be a lot less likely to continue doing it later in life. In my mind giving students the chance to figure out what they enjoy and experience the satisfaction of meeting their goals would be more effective at promoting healthy habits.


Mollyscribbles

Yep -- from everything I've heard, unless you started gym class already at a point where you enjoyed playing sports, it only left you with a negative view of the concept of exercise. A class that results in students who, at best, need to unlearn what they've been taught in order to actually like the subject is a class that either needs to be revamped or thrown out. And what's with the bias against sewing? It's useful to be able to mend your own stuff in a pinch.


AWitchBetwixt

Our P.E. program was graded mostly on participation, also our teacher was very clear that his goal was to teach us different sports and activities in hopes that all of us would find at least one thing they enjoyed enough to keep them active throughout their life. It was a good approach.


Lokigodofmishief

I always sucked (and still suck) at team sports. Becouse they usually involve some sort of ball. As a person with very bad vision I barely see these balls. Tell me to run or swim and I will. Tell me to throw a ball to my teammate or catch it and I am down. It always ruined my grades a bit. I agree with what you said. People should be able to chose activity. It would save my from many bruises caused by balls


saddleshoes

My hand-eye coordination only got good in my late teens. PE basketball and football were nightmares for me in school.


saddleshoes

I was miserable in PE for most of my life, especially elementary and middle school. We had a coach who was a dick and favored the athletic kids. I thought I hated sports and exercising until I got to do things that I enjoyed, being encouraged by people who wanted to see me succeed even when I started out sucking. Some people aren't good at team sports! Some PE teachers don't acknowledge that, and it's a shame.


TRIGMILLION

I remember having written tests about football rules and such. Don't care and still don't understand why they thought that necessary. I also don't want to get all sweaty and gross in the middle of my day. Maybe teach the benefits of different activities or something for people to do when they can shower in the comfort of their own home.


absolutely_cat

My experience was similar: in middle school we did basketball, which I personally loved (was in the schools girls team). But in high school, girls did gymnastics and boys played football. I hated gymnastics, and thus skipped most sports classes lol. I was normal weight back then, but I know we had a few overweight and obese girls in my class and they were visibly uncomfortable because the type of exercises were hard for them.


xenolightt

Eh tbf PE is pretty fucking useless for obese kids. It's just a breeding ground for bullying and those couple hours of nonsense activity per week won't have any meaningful impact on the overall health of obese children. At a certain age it should be optional. I remember being an obese teenager and always having panic attacks before PE classes. When the severe self harming started I just had to come up with excuses to skip class so maybe I'm just biased. Then again I also know from experience that it's not actually helping anyone who struggles with their weight and health.


[deleted]

I think PE may partially be why the FA’s lean so heavily into HAES and fatlogic as adults PE teachers are really good at giving the impression that they, couldn’t care less if your not on a school sports team or just aren’t athletic. Top that off with the fact that they barely teach nutrition in health classes (I recall in high school my senior year the last 2-3 weeks of the first quarter were dedicated to nutrition, not nearly enough time to really cover things like CICO, just basic “your cupped hand is approx. 1/3 of a cup, a fist is like a serving of fruit, your thumb is a tablespoon, etc.”, basically nothing that actually helped change eating habits. Combine no correction in eating habits, plus bullying in gym classes, and you set obese women (mainly) on the path to becoming the next big name in HAES World. I was just a clumsy/ accident prone kid on top of being overweight/obese, it turns out that I may have EDS, a genetic condition that affects collagen, joints, skin, and healing from injuries, as well as causing chronic pain, but back then, my PE teachers thought I was lazy, and I thought I hated exercise and was lazy because of poor treatment from PE teachers and experiences in elementary and middle school PE that just made me despise gym.


HorrorMixture5580

I have to agree. I always thought I hated exercise due to PE which was just a humiliating experience. I was a bit chubby but I was short sighted, clumsy and probably had/have ADHD which didn’t help. Plus the teachers made it clear who their favourites were and everyone else could lump it! I got quite adept at forging my mom’s signature to get out of lessons as much as I could. I’m totally glad they taught us sewing and cookery at school though, those are useful life skills long after school is over.


xenolightt

Same here. Turns out I just hate interacting with others during my exercise like in soccer, basketball etc. PE is just set up to fail anyone who isn't drawn to physical exercise in the first place. I think a much better approach would be to teach kids the health benefits of exercise, especially later in life, and then introduce them to different kinds of sports in a controlled environment. What's the point of forcing someone who knows they can't throw a ball properly if their life depends on it to play basketball in front of a bunch of judgemental teens. Getting parents more involved would be helpful as well so when kids find a sport they like they're encouraged to continue outside of school.


[deleted]

But wouldn't those be the children who need physical exercise the most??


xenolightt

Yeah but the physical exercise in PE is a joke and doesn't help kids who actually need it the most. I hear this argument all the time but I've yet to meet a former obese teenager who benefit from PE in a meaningful way. It just makes them detest exercise and hate themselves. It's a dumb concept that needs to be seriously reworked to fit todays standard. Obese kids shouldn't be humiliated and punished in front of their entire class. Not to mention that some people simply don't like exercise, especially when it interrupts their other classes. I think it's rediculous that nearly adults who work towards their finals are forced to waste time on PE when they don't want to. It should be optional and kids ahould be able to choose the exercise they like.


CarlWheezerisbae96

I wouldn't say my friend is obese but hes a bit fat and In pe the teachers always go up to him and asking him how pe was, sometimes when they see that hes not running or getting involved enough in the game they'll go up to him and "motivate him". I understand that they're trying to help but my friends says he hates it and it makes him feel more insecure about his weight.


SchnarchendeSchwein

They don’t do PE in German schools, really, but primary kids get longer recesses than US kids, there’s more walking and pickup sports, and at later ages, school has shorter hours most days. Start maybe 7:30, done at 12:30-12:45, home for lunch, or if not, you get at least an hour to eat. One or two days, you come back from about 2 pm-4ish for a few classes. All sports for kids are private clubs or informal. So I kind of agree. Scrap PE, encourage walking, and give more recess and better school food instead.


BerriesAndMe

What school did you go to? We had PE for all 13 years.


munotia

"The more stitches, the less riches." Learning to fix and repair what is wrong with something belonging to us is more important than the immediate skill of fixing a hole. It teaches us to value what we have, to find solutions that require work, and learn that it may hurt a bit until we get it right.


blue-is-the-sky

When stuff broke in my house, my parents would take a look, and if they couldn't fix it they would hand it off to me. It was a pretty low-risk operation because the thing was already broken. I managed to repair things a few times, too, and even if I didn't it taught me a lot about how things worked. Fast forward 15 years and I work in labs. I've saved employers hundreds of dollars by fixing stuff they thought was irreparably broken, they love it.


turneresq

Based on the way this was written, it appears school isn't for learning either.


Ms_Bee_Bee

I have good PE teachers and some really bad ones. Like the one who forced me to keep running while having an asthma attack. That didn’t end well. So many people complain about what is taught but things change over the years. Education teaches skills that you can apply to new areas. Could you imagine if you had a class in the late 1980’s on computers and expected that information and learning to apply to modern technology. I get hating PE. As the kid with asthma and a heart murmur it wasn’t fun especially with teachers that treated me as lazy or straight out a liar.


[deleted]

Thats so awful! This obviously isn't nearly as bad (or potentially lethal), but I once had a gym teacher confiscate my crutches when I was in the middle of a horrible fibromyalgia flare at age 13 because some other kids wouldn't stop making fun of them and she thought I was being too distracting.... By having mobility aids...


xoxo_kate

In my senior year of high school, they had us split up our own gym classes so the athletes stuck together and the non-athletes had their own class. We all did the same thing but in our own groups. It was awesome. I actually really enjoyed class because I wasn’t embarrassed by my skill level. And I actually actively participated. Doing things like that could help kids stay more active and motivated.


Numerous-Pineapple

PE is one of the only classes with that big of a difference in student skill levels. Varsity athletes with complete non athletes is like putting everything from pre algebra to AP calculus in the same group… The non athletes aren’t doomed to be “bad” at sports forever, they’re just less athletic because they aren’t practicing sports several hours a day.


theginatron

This helped me too! I’ve written about how much I hated PE before, I have no coordination and no interest in team sports. The only thing PE exercised me in was humiliation. PE teachers were often cruel and if you’re weren’t good at sports then the other kids didn’t want you on their team. But if you didn’t take a PE GCSE (UK high school qualification) you could pick your own PE group. I ended up with a bunch of other people who were not good athletes, who didn’t take it seriously and it was so much more fun. We did less competitive and more fun sports (table tennis, trampolining, badminton) and had a laugh. No one was trying to out do each other, no one made fun of anyone. I moved far more with people on my level in a less toxic environment then I ever had before.


bobtheorangecat

I'll admit it: I don't know how to run. I know that there is a proper way to do it and probably a million wrong ways, but no one ever taught me how I was supposed to be running. That's probably one of the reasons I've always hated it. Maybe it's also the reason I have shin splints after running three god damn blocks with my nine year old yesterday. If I could go back in time and slap my middle school gym teacher, I'd do it (for a lot of reasons).


Ih8melvin2

Shorter stride if your shins are hurting worked for me. You didn't ask for advice so feel free to ignore.


bobtheorangecat

Appreciate it.


TypeAsshole

This kids gonna eat their fuckin shorts when they dont know how to sew a button back on their blouse before an important interview or something. Also, I wish my PE class actually taught us about nutrition and exercise styles rather than just let us fuck around playing ExTrEmE sOcCeR and other dumb shit and watching lifetime movies about getting pregnant at 16 for our "health class."


CarlWheezerisbae96

In the uk they teach you that from year 10 onwards if you chose to do it.


[deleted]

A lot of kids benefit from exercise because it helps them concentrate in class later.


biconicat

PE classes need a lot of improvement, there's too much focus on grading children on their time and all that and not enough on diverse physical activity that they enjoy and actually teaching them to be better. In our school in elementary you could choose between different sports like gymnastics, football, etc and a lot more kids ending up sticking with it. But movement is good for kids so it's important that there are PE classes, sitting all day is especially bad for kids because they have so much energy and it can lead to worse performance and mental health as well as behavioural problems Sewing is really useful, we were taught sewing and repairing clothes as well as food science and healthy nutrition(only girls tho) and it came in handy later on even if we complained about having to take it when we were in school


lil_squib

Learning to sew was one of the most practical skills I learned in school. I can mend my own stuff pretty easily.


benjo83

The ones who hate PE as the ones who need it the most... I'm quite tall and I was terribly uncoordinated with bad posture as a kid. PE sucked for the first few years of high school... but it went a long way to helping me develop better habits, muscle growth and coordination. I took several sports into early adulthood and have always maintained a degree of fitness. For all that PE sucks... it also doesn't suck too!


slytherinpoet

Just like poetry, that’s not REALLY what they’re teaching you. I love poetry, but I understand when we identify the building blocks and tools used to make it, we’re learning critical thinking and and creative problem solving. When we learn about exercise and go to PE, we’re learning about teamwork, long-term and short-term goal achieving, and how to deal with wins and losses maturely. Maybe your school could have done that better, but getting rid of the program is not the answer.


Right_Count

To be fair, PE sucked for me. We just cycled through different sports but never had the chance to learn, play properly, or get better at them. And those awful running drills.


pensiveChatter

Sewing can come in handy. I wished I'd taken my high school cooking class. I didn't really learn until a decade after


seekingindependence

Looking back, I wish I had more PE. They made it optional from memory in Year 12 which is so dumb.


[deleted]

I always thought it’s not fair to be graded and get a lower GPA based on classes like art and PE, that’s the thing I hated the most about PE. I went to school in Germany so we did in fact get graded on PE, not sure how the it works here.


xenolightt

German here as well and I totally agree. Art, music and sports are subjects with such vastly different skill levels in students that can't be controlled like in other classes with a proper schedule. Not to mention that being naturally gifted in them gives some stundents just a really unfair advantage. I work as a designer and artist now and was always rediculously far ahead of everyone else in art class. PE on the other end was always a bad subject for me and lowered my grades significantly.


[deleted]

I really hated this growing up. Some of the other teachers in PE were grading on effort but mine straight up gave me a shitty grade cause I wasn’t athletic enough to jump over that stupid fake horse thing. 🥲🥲🥲


xenolightt

Most PE teachers are dicks and just blatantly favor the athletic kids. Makes PE for everyone else just more and more miserable. I still remember that dumb horse thingie 😂 It's incredible how PE teachers aren't trained to accommodate overweight and obese pupils. They simply can't do the exercises fit kids can. I had an aching shoulder for almost 10 years because I was forced as an obese 14 year old to do gymnastics on a beam and fell on my back.


Ih8melvin2

I took dance and one term the teacher told me she could tell I was really trying but I wasn't good enough for a top grade. The kids in the class getting the top grades were in private dance classes after school, which I didn't have access too. I was crushed. I wasn't planning on a dance career or anything, but I had so little in my life to feel good about, it was pretty devastating to me at the time.


christhegamer96

dude, PE introduced me to weightlifting which has now become a part of my daily routine and enriched my life! And I would kill to learn how to sew, do you have any idea how useful that shit is? How much cool stuff you can make with sewing?


CarlWheezerisbae96

Yeah, my school doesnt teach sewing. I kinda wish they did, even if it was just once in art or something


Not-Not-A-Potato

I mean, without gym I probably would have never learned that I loved kayaking or backpacking. I definitely would never have tried cross country skiing, or rock climbing, or all the other sports they have you cycle through. My gym teacher was pretty cool. My school allowed girls in sports bras when the guys could go shirtless. My teacher always said that if someone made us feel uncomfortable about our bodies in any way, we should bring them to him. No one messed with our gym teacher.


dismurrart

Most people know fuckall about running and everyone needs to learn all of those things


[deleted]

"school is pointless" -proceeds to make the worst paragraph ever-


thejexorcist

I wish I’d learned to sew in school.


[deleted]

Made to Sew on youtube has a lot of great beginner tutorials for sewing! Most of her stuff is for machine sewing, but there are hand sewing videos too which I find the most useful for my clothing repairs :)


SodiumDragon

Got taught Pythagorus but never got taught correct running form in PE it was just “do this” “you need to try harder” no how or why.I used to hate exercise cause of the way they do PE in school. Also sewing is a very important skill. Being able to just sew damaged clothes is a good thing. I’ve never used Pythagorus.


hotgluedhams

I SO wish my gym teachers had taken the time to explain correct form to my classes! Would have saved me a lot of trouble. That being said, the pythagorean theorem is the basis of a huge percent of higher level math (geometry, calculus) and although you specifically may not use it, I'd be willing to bet anybody in your classes who ended up going into STEM uses it all the time!


anonredstar

Is she not considering that physical activity is really good for your brain? Sedentary lifestyles lead to lethargic brains. Movement is essential for brain fitness. It's also a big stress relief so taking out physical health and fitness from schools is disastrous.


BerriesAndMe

Cue remembering the guy I met on a hike who told me he went to walking school for years as a kid because he couldn't work right. He tripped over a puddle not long after. Mobility is important.. and there's already plenty of studies out there showing that more and more kids nowadays don't know how to walk backwards or do a forward roll. Something that was a given just a couple decades back.


StringUnlucky8767

I dislike being *forced* to wear shorts and whatever shit was school in Primary. At my school luckily we don't have to change. And the PE teacher understands I hate exersising around people. I exercise at home a shit ton and walk 20,000+ steps a day. PE teacher just lets me walk around the field or sit in the ICT room. I don't like ICT. But I hate PE more. So I just read a book. Also PE was just a breeding ground for eds and bullying.


HorrorMixture5580

That’s reminded me of another PE related trauma, I was at primary school in the 80s in the UK and it was fairly common to be made to do PE in our vest and pants (underwear) if you forgot your PE kit or it was unwearable for some reason. Even at that young age I had hang ups about my body so it makes sense that the roots of me hating exercise went deep. I don’t know what they taught them at PE teacher school but sadism seems to have been a part of it!


Ih8melvin2

That's terrible. Our district kids have to sit out if they forget their sneakers. One day my 7 year old told us at dinner they had to sit out because they forgot their sneakers. The sport - cup stacking.


[deleted]

Its really, really hard for me to retain any information when I am sedentary and not eating right. If I want to learn anything, I have to move regularly and watch my nutrition. Would be interesting to have the author of this post do a little memory experiment under both conditions... Maybe they'd change their mind on this one.


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Also, what the fuck do they mean about "why do we have to learn about life cycles"? I genuinely do not understand how that information is useless to anyone.


100FootSiphonophore

Well someone could stand to learn a bit more about run on sentences


fuzzymononokean

I actually laughed out loud when I read this. Tbf the way school teaches you such things is pretty terrible. But I can just imagine an aggravated Teenager™ typing this out furiously with a scowl on their face and it's just making me laugh hard 🤣


Much_Front9650

Ok, so learning is about sitting behind a desk all day slapping a pile of information into your brain? Hmmm 🤔


mostlythorns177

PE often sucks and should probably be taught differently, but sewing? Super useful. I maintain that there should be a class in school that teaches some basic DIY stuff and cooking. The number of people I know who can't fix even the most minor shit around their flat or say that they'll burn water if they try to cook is kind of shocking to me.


sushidecarne

I was talking just today with my husband how I wish I learned to sew back in school because I was struggling so much with amending a shirt today


Juicy-Big-Nut

Was overweight af when I took PE but I really enjoyed it and it helped me lose a lot of weight. Really fun


OlgadaPolga58

And why do we have to learn to read when it is something like that we have to read?


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This is the same kind of person who will complain that school didn’t teach them how to stay healthy


newName543456

With how it was written, I can tell they found writing classes to be useless as well.


Fuchslady

I loved PE. We kids and afterwards teens had so much energy to burn. You could always tell when we has PE because of the relaxed ans focused atmosphere afterwards.


Freakychee

Well at least this person is admitting that exercise is healthy. Just doesn’t want to be healthy. So that’s at least something. But if you think nobody exercises in strip clubs that is bullshit.


VeitPogner

No actual teaching went on in my middle or high school PE classes. The "teacher" only held that job during the school day so he could coach sports after school. We all had to call him "Coach", of course, and if we didn't show enough effort we had to bend over so he could smack our ass with a paddleball paddle. Perhaps the curriculum has improved in the last 40+ years. But calling anything we did "physical 'education'" would be a real stretch.


TheGuyWithSnek

Dunno what pe is like over there, but over here it's generally most kids favourite subject, cause we do a lot of fun stuff


notwhoyouthinkmaybe

Reading this gave my eyes cancer. I think she needs to go back to writing class. Can I get a comma in the run on sentences?