Rakkety_Tamm
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They have gotten rid of every PE course excpet 9th grade pe course, yet they are upset by the fat-ness of students. How does that work?
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Feste-Fenris
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If people have the option to be lazy most people will choose to be lazy...
Most people would rather watch a vicious football game than play in one for example... most people would rather watch a documentary about hiking than actually hike...
Human nature... |
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magic
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| Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2005 6:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Feste-Fenris wrote: | | most people would rather watch a documentary about hiking than actually hike... |
I guess then that I am certainly unlike most people. I love to hike, but do not enjoy watching TV much. I dislike the PE-class-style sports though, and while being a college freshman, I decided that I had enough PE in my life, and got a medical waiver.
Rakkety_Tamm, what schools do not have PE classes?
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Feste-Fenris
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| Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2005 9:06 pm Post subject: |
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| I've spent my whole life hiking... let me tell you; hiking is fun while it lasts but an hour afterwards it feels like your legs are rotting off... |
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magic
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| Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 7:04 am Post subject: |
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| Feste-Fenris wrote: | | I've spent my whole life hiking... let me tell you; hiking is fun while it lasts but an hour afterwards it feels like your legs are rotting off... |
That's the fun part - makes me feel alive! I do not feel completely rested if I can still move my legs.  |
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| Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 8:34 am Post subject: |
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Heheh.. I also like to hike. I'm not sure about the whole "legs falling off" part, but I really enjoy it when the oxygen is just flooding my lungs, and I can feel my muscles stretching and "waking up."
Unfortunately, I'm not in very good shape, and am pretty busy in school in the city, so I don't get to hike much. |
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Feste-Fenris
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Do colleges in the US have mandatory PE classes? 
That seems unbelievable to me. If you go to college/university you are voluntarily choosing a course of study, and certainly shouldn't be forced to participate in anything not related to your personal educational goals. 
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vetivert
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| Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 9:08 am Post subject: |
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9th grade = year 9 = 13/14 year olds, i believe, dunc.
anyway, how much good does an hour or two of PE do when people spend most of their time shoving hamburgers and coke down their necks. beats me why schools get blamed for everything. sigh. i should be used to it by now, i suppose, though. |
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I realise that morgvis - I was responding to magic's comment: | magic wrote: | | I dislike the PE-class-style sports though, and while being a college freshman, I decided that I had enough PE in my life, and got a medical waiver. |
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Dan
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| Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 12:54 pm Post subject: |
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| duncvis wrote: | | Do colleges in the US have mandatory PE classes? |
Mine does. For students under Catalog 123 (Class of '04) and earlier, the requirement was 4 semesters, but the classes after us only have to have 2. |
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magic
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| Dunc, I was also when, as a 19-year-old adult, I learned that 6 semesters of mandatory PE await me. PE was always a source of bad grades and a ridicule for me, so you might imagine how happy that made me, being treated like a first-grader. I graduated from the university in Poland, not the US, though. |
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Still wibbling in amazement - no one would tolerate such a thing here in the UK! Considering as a group most of us spent PE at school struggling, being ostracised or tormented by 'jocks', being subjected to it again as adults must be a violation of civil liberties surely? Those of you having this imposed on you have my deepest sympathy. It's enough to put anyone off going to college.
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| Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 2:31 pm Post subject: |
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| duncvis wrote: | | I realise that morgvis - I was responding to magic's comment |
whoops - sorry bruv - didn't mean to sound patronising.  |
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Civet
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I suppose in this regard I'm lucky that I'm a girl. I was actually accusing of being too much into the game when we played soccer (we were always divided by gender, thank god, because the guys enjoyed ricocheting (sp???) the ball off of the wall and into eachother's heads). I played soccer (very poorly) for a recreational league for about a year and a half, so I knew a bit more than most of the girls in my class did, and they got really angry at me for "kicking the ball too hard." 
Other than soccer, though, I really prefered just to sit on the bench and watch, or attempt to "shoot hoops" rather than actually playing, and that was much more acceptable (even expected) amongst the girls in the class.
Oh- and my college does not require gym. We don't even have PE classes. It's an art school. |
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