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[G-Flex]

The semester final exams were to play against him in GoldenEye, with your grade based on how well you do.

Christ, that's bad. I feel like I'm reading an article from The Onion right now.

I'll be he picked Oddjob, too.

[vagel7]

As much as I hated PE in school (admittedly mostly because of the weekly mile run, we did have some really fun games at times like Snake) I would say it should stay around. Its really just a pity where the joke "Those who can't do teach, those who can't teach, teach PE" applies all to often. I mean if PE had been rolled into stuff like swimming or self defense where you're learning and exercising that would be great but the majority are just plain exercising. Even my school, private for crying out loud, was all physical and no teaching.

I go to a private school too. Every teacher here is pure awesome. But I don't know how the PE teacher got in here.

PE needs stronger control and the way it seems right now is that everybody take this mindless running and faulty system as the right thing. The system needs a lot of changing. It would probably be pretty good then. For instance our girls have it easy for PE, they just talk to the teacher and get 5s by just showing up. I don't think in the 2 schools I have been in, we have ever done any theory in PE.

[Vector]

Eh.  I was in a public school, but the area I grew up in was really absurdly rich and the property taxes from that paid for everything.

So, I definitely don't take my experience as the average--but I think they did it pretty much just as it should have been done.  I actually had a lot of fun most of the time.

[Itnetlolor]

Ah, PE the fun class. Essentially like recess during middle/high school since recess is gone after elementary school. Sure, it's been tedious most times, but when certain days roll around like, let's say a rainy day, and you're stuck in the gym for the period, and the gym isn't in use by another coach, or it's a collective agreement. DODGEBALL!!! The most fun you'll ever have in a PE class.

I think that class should stay, but I would agree, it should be grading students for effort and teamwork (even if the student doesn't do too well, the fact they put any energy into it and give a crap about their health) especially. I did feel quite a bit of shame for my school when I heard from my sister (last one to attend the school) that at times, instead of playing games like dodgeball, football, gym hockey, or soccer (those fields were quite empty much of the time), the classes are inside playing DDR and Guitar Hero as the class. o_O

I don't want to be one of those people, but I am getting fairly sick and tired of hearing how much more sedentary the country/world is getting these days. I understand when winters get really damn cold (like last year), but every other season, people should get off their lazy asses sometimes. A good place to start is as early as possible, and PE classes are a good start. Just keep it fun, educational (how to play sports, how to apply teamwork properly, and not play dirty, and get/keep the whole class interested without going too easy on them (coaches can be refs too)); teach them the proper way to stay in shape/fit, how to use exercise equipment (if provided) properly and safely. It's called Physical Education, not just "P.E." or "That smelly class" or "Pep Rally Snooze-fest Practice".

[MorleyDev]

I'm fine with the English system as I remember it: Compulsory until Year 9. Then it's an optional GCSE and you actually learn about human physiology and the basic why and hows of different sports, work-out regimes yadda yadda. Until then it's just making kids play rounders in a field for a bit.

Heck, in that pre-GCSE part my school let us pick the sport we did a lot of the times. For example, if you wanted to do (English) football, you put yourself down for that and went into one of the football-playing classes. If you wanted to instead do basketball, you could do that. Football was more popular amongst men, basketball amongst women (I, a man, did Basketball because I hate it less than football).

This was very useful with more polarising sports. There is no way the school could have made me play Rugby, and being able to pick what was basically a set of Olympian Sports instead (Javelin, Long-Jump, Running, and a few others most of which I enjoyed or could at least tolerate) was nice xD