#pe lessons

It's not like we were ever going to get any good at most of them. Nobody ever became great at shot put by spending one hour a year doing it as part of the field games unit.

The whole justification for PE is that it gets kids active. Any sport is just a pretext for that.

And I'm sure some kids absolutely loved it— at least the bits like the netball, football or hocket units, where you actually got to spend more than an hour learning and playing a specific sport— and yeahm definitely still make it an option for those kids, but for the rest of us? The ones whose hatred of PE stemmed less from laziness and more from the shame and embarassment at being forced to demonstrate how shit we were at throwing, catching and running competitively twice a week for several years... they could have just told us to play tag for an hour.

We were children, we liked doing that sort of thing anyway.

If you'd told me age 10 that instead of playing rounders— a game where I spent most of my time 'fielding' on the edges, in the corner of the field I'd calculated as being least likely to ever have the ball end up in it— we were all going to play stuck in the mud, I'd have been delighted. I would have probably gotten more and better exercise and would probably have felt like I'd been let off PE.

Ok, does anyone have any suggestions or help for people with Social Anxiety Disorder during P.E. lessons?

We'll have a PE entry test this Saturday and I feel like throwing up just thinking about it.

I really can't do push-ups and things like that if other people are watching, I feel like I have to throw up...

So today I had PE classes and our teacher told us to hang in pull-up position... Horrible. I was the last one and I felt pretty scared before. But hey, I was probably the only one who was doing push-ups/arms workouts daily, so I couldn't be the worst like a year ago. I really did..