(July 17, 2017 at 5:43 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: I was informed recently that making a kid in PE class who strikes out during a game of softball run laps around the ball diamond is VERY not OK.
Additionally, a kid missing a lay up during some basketball being made to run laps around the gym is VERY awful too.
WTF !!!
How is the kid supposed to learn ??
(BTW, when I was in grade school PE class, a ran a whole lotta laps, and I never got any good at hitting the damn softball and I never ever made a basket either)
In most states it's illegal I think. I don't think it teaches kids to hit a ball better, or make baskets. If anything it teaches kids that physical exercise is a punishment, and not enjoyable. I'm glad that when I was in school we never had anything like that. I don't think the coach ever noticed if we missed a basket. And if we struck out in softball, we were told to try better next time.
As a coach, I'd never make my cheerleaders run laps for failing to perform a stunt. I'd just have them try again. Because only through practice can you really learn. Almost all of my cheerleaders are physically active. Many of them are even in my Yoga Club (which I run in the spring, and is a lot of fun).
When I was in high school we usually just played basketball in gym class (that and those Presidential Fitness Tests that everyone hated). Sometimes we'd do volleyball though or badminton. I loved badminton. My husband and I played in a doubles tournament in college and won! It's easily his sport. (He won the singles tournament in college). I'm mostly better at sports than him though. (I ran track in high school and did Cheerleading too, while he only played football for one year) We'd usually run laps at the beginning of class (after doing pushups situps, jumping jacks, and whatever else there was that I'm forgetting). I think Gym class needs to be fun, rather than something to dread.
The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to woman is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
