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[mamaslittlepotato]

@DrakesMomma i’m so sorry that happened to you.😔

[mrshckynut]

algebra was a total waste of half of my sophmore semester i have yet to use it or need it 

mrshckynut 

[tends2dogs]

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@Tinkrbl44 wrote:

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@tends2dogs wrote:

Phys Ed for sure.  I had swimming the first hour and my hair was a mess the rest of the day.  The caps were useless.  Our instructor, I swear she was a drill sargeant, made us dunk our heads 100 times before the start of the class.  I know it was to make sure we got our hair wet.  Funny, but all the phys ed teachers looked like and were built like men.....at least the ones I had.

As far as the gymnastic class, we had a girl that fell, straddling the balance beam.  That poor, sweet girl never walked the same again.  It must have damaged her pelvis.

Not everyone is cut out for athletics.  It should be an elective.

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@tends2dogs 

Doesn't matter if the kid was in a public or private school; it's about physical fitness and their vulnerability.   

Sending young people out into the world with no basic physical skills would be a huge mistake, even if only to run away from a mugger.  

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I am sure you must jest, @Tinkrbl44 .  I know that I don't/didn't need to walk on a balance beam, jump off a high dive, or play field hockey to know or be able to run from a mugger.  

I stick with my opinion that it should be an elective.  Some like athletics and some don't.  

[beckyb1012]

I never needed algebra and I did not have to take PE in high school since I was on the Drill Team.  That class with all my dance moves I still use to this day.  Even at 63 if I feel I am sitting too long during a football game I just get out of my chair and start marching and doing some of the moves we did during half time.  Do I still do the high kicks?  No I do not.  PE was not an elective but trying out for the Drill Team was, thank goodness it qualified for the PE credit or I would have have hated that hour of school every day. 

[SoCal Bred]

Spanish 1 & 2 - Got by with passing grades but learned more on the streets where we lived just by hanging out with the neighborhood kids, lol.

Art Class - Never had an interest in art, I do remember our teacher Mrs Neutra, she was very beautiful always wore her hair in a french twist and she seemed to only favor students that she knew that would excel in her class.  I was glad to get that class over and done with.

[Tinkrbl44]

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@tends2dogs wrote:

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@Tinkrbl44 wrote:

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@tends2dogs wrote:

Phys Ed for sure.  I had swimming the first hour and my hair was a mess the rest of the day.  The caps were useless.  Our instructor, I swear she was a drill sargeant, made us dunk our heads 100 times before the start of the class.  I know it was to make sure we got our hair wet.  Funny, but all the phys ed teachers looked like and were built like men.....at least the ones I had.

As far as the gymnastic class, we had a girl that fell, straddling the balance beam.  That poor, sweet girl never walked the same again.  It must have damaged her pelvis.

Not everyone is cut out for athletics.  It should be an elective.

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@tends2dogs 

Doesn't matter if the kid was in a public or private school; it's about physical fitness and their vulnerability.   

Sending young people out into the world with no basic physical skills would be a huge mistake, even if only to run away from a mugger.  

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I am sure you must jest, @Tinkrbl44 .  I know that I don't/didn't need to walk on a balance beam, jump off a high dive, or play field hockey to know or be able to run from a mugger.  

I stick with my opinion that it should be an elective.  Some like athletics and some don't.  

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@tends2dogs 

The whole point is to get children to TRY many things, to see what they're like, and develop (at least) some very basic skills. 

Example ... Many kids have no idea how to be part of a team until they are in school, and these skills could be very useful in adult work situations.

That's what schools do, and since they rely on government funding, they have requirements to meet or they don't get the money ... and teachers expect to be paid.

I may be thinking of something else from that era, but didn't JFK have some sort of physical fitness thing that coincided with the Olympics?   

[beckyb1012]

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@Tinkrbl44 wrote:

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@tends2dogs wrote:

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@Tinkrbl44 wrote:

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@tends2dogs wrote:

Phys Ed for sure.  I had swimming the first hour and my hair was a mess the rest of the day.  The caps were useless.  Our instructor, I swear she was a drill sargeant, made us dunk our heads 100 times before the start of the class.  I know it was to make sure we got our hair wet.  Funny, but all the phys ed teachers looked like and were built like men.....at least the ones I had.

As far as the gymnastic class, we had a girl that fell, straddling the balance beam.  That poor, sweet girl never walked the same again.  It must have damaged her pelvis.

Not everyone is cut out for athletics.  It should be an elective.

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@tends2dogs 

Doesn't matter if the kid was in a public or private school; it's about physical fitness and their vulnerability.   

Sending young people out into the world with no basic physical skills would be a huge mistake, even if only to run away from a mugger.  

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I am sure you must jest, @Tinkrbl44 .  I know that I don't/didn't need to walk on a balance beam, jump off a high dive, or play field hockey to know or be able to run from a mugger.  

I stick with my opinion that it should be an elective.  Some like athletics and some don't.  

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@tends2dogs 

The whole point is to get children to TRY many things, to see what they're like, and develop (at least) some very basic skills. 

Example ... Many kids have no idea how to be part of a team until they are in school, and these skills could be very useful in adult work situations.

That's what schools do, and since they rely on government funding, they have requirements to meet or they don't get the money ... and teachers expect to be paid.

I may be thinking of something else from that era, but didn't JFK have some sort of physical fitness thing that coincided with the Olympics?   

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That was his sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver. 

[chlema]

My junior year we had a class called Social Studies.  Which meant that each boy in the class stood up and picked a girl that he wanted to date, marry, have children with.  Yes, believe it!

So the guy that chose me was now my "boyfriend", we were supposed to date (nope, not for me) then get married and have kids.  All was supposed to be entered into a scrap book.  We had to cut out pictures of each event down to pictures of our so-called children.  Long story short, we both hated that course and did none of that but still got an A.  What a waste of a semester.

[tends2dogs]

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@Tinkrbl44 wrote:

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@tends2dogs wrote:

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@Tinkrbl44 wrote:

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@tends2dogs wrote:

Phys Ed for sure.  I had swimming the first hour and my hair was a mess the rest of the day.  The caps were useless.  Our instructor, I swear she was a drill sargeant, made us dunk our heads 100 times before the start of the class.  I know it was to make sure we got our hair wet.  Funny, but all the phys ed teachers looked like and were built like men.....at least the ones I had.

As far as the gymnastic class, we had a girl that fell, straddling the balance beam.  That poor, sweet girl never walked the same again.  It must have damaged her pelvis.

Not everyone is cut out for athletics.  It should be an elective.

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@tends2dogs 

Doesn't matter if the kid was in a public or private school; it's about physical fitness and their vulnerability.   

Sending young people out into the world with no basic physical skills would be a huge mistake, even if only to run away from a mugger.  

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I am sure you must jest, @Tinkrbl44 .  I know that I don't/didn't need to walk on a balance beam, jump off a high dive, or play field hockey to know or be able to run from a mugger.  

I stick with my opinion that it should be an elective.  Some like athletics and some don't.  

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@tends2dogs 

The whole point is to get children to TRY many things, to see what they're like, and develop (at least) some very basic skills. 

Example ... Many kids have no idea how to be part of a team until they are in school, and these skills could be very useful in adult work situations.

That's what schools do, and since they rely on government funding, they have requirements to meet or they don't get the money ... and teachers expect to be paid.

I may be thinking of something else from that era, but didn't JFK have some sort of physical fitness thing that coincided with the Olympics?   

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Experiencing new things and working as a team would be a better reason for sports in school than having the physical skill to run from a mugger which seems weak and bit out there, thus the "you must jest" comment.  lol  I get what you are saying and I think there was some sort of physical fitness push during the Kennedy days.  

I still think that the way it is introduced makes all the difference.  If someone doesn't have the where with all to jump off a high dive or walk on a balance beam, they shouldn't be made to feel less than others that may shine at it. 

Those one piece jumpsuits we had to wear were awful, not to mention the bathing suits........hid nothing!  The boys didn't wear anything!   

[jubilant]

Latin and gym class. I can see where Latin would have come in handy for a medical 

career but after having some Spanish classes in grade school, I found it to be 

a rather boring and "not pretty" language.