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I see the point. I'm horribly non-athletic, and was chubby as a kid, so PE was my worst time of the day. I had 98s and 99s in all my other classes, but I was worried about making a B in PE.
I hated it because I wasn't very good at it, and I never was given an enviroment in which to learn to enjoy physical activity. I was mocked, had balls thrown at me, etc. And the teachers didn't give a damn because they doted upon their super-athlete pets.
An example of how I was treated in PE: We were running a relay race, and I was the last person. A boy on my team screamed at me "pretend there's a big juicy hamburger at the finish line!" thinking that I was just this fat blob motivated by nothing other than food.
I think if we'd had some non-competitive sports, something like step aerobics, dance, hell, even a tae-bo tape, I would have been much more able to realize that phsyical activity isn't "bad." Maybe even realize that it could be fun.
Instead, I've been left with a terrible taste in my mouth about sports and many of the "athletic types" after 10 years of being treated like shit because I couldn't play volleyball.
The point of Physical Education should be (in my opinion) to educate students about how to keep their bodies healthy and to enjoy physical activity. While classes for athletes and those who want to compete should be available, there should also be some classes for those who are just inable to compete, and suffer physical and emotional abuse from their peers and the teachers for it.
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