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ELLEN, the anti-athlete: A young friend, who is a sophomore in high school, appears to do anything possible to avoid gym class. Yet, she’s happy to go over to her local gym to workout.
What is that?
Is it just that we hate activities because teachers make us do them?
Going to the gym is all the rage and rather expensive, if you ask me. Yet a generation ago when I was in school, we hid out in the showers so we didn’t have to play volleyball or we feigned illness to avoid climbing the rope. I hate to sound like a crone, but we really did walk to school or take a city bus. We probably hiked the equivalent of a mile from the stop to the school building and from the stop to home. EVERY DAY. My kids want a ride to the grocery store, well within walking distance, to buy snacks! It’s just not cool in our neighborhood to walk to the store. In some neighborhoods, it’s not safe or it’s too far to conveniently walk.
Heather’s right. We have epidemic obesity and diabetes. We have young women alternately starving or overweight. Whatever happened to the notion that school is there to help you learn about your body and its strengths just like it helps you sharpen your mind? Why is it that in high schools you often find two extremes: the jock and the nerd?
It is important, particularly for young women, to make physical fitness and athleticism something “cool” to do. I am not sure how to do it given the high school curriculum and the younger generation’s penchant for challenging authority. On this topic, I clearly have more questions than answers.
Posted October 08, 2003 01:57 AM
I was and am the same way. A marathoner and bodybuilder in the years following high school, I hated gym class - the teacher's derision of anyone who was not varsity material, sports such as dodge ball which preyed upon the slow, weak, and uncoordinated, an environment which invited bullying.
In mathematics or English class, indeed in any class other than gym, a teacher verbally abusing and insulting a student would not be accepted.
Posted by: m on October 13, 2003 11:59 AMWhy take gym class? Because, most kids don't get enough exercise. Of course gym class is mandatory. This may be the only exercise that your child may get each day. Kids these days are raised on too much junk food and too little exercise and yet they complain when they get a little chunky (and want to take the easy way out e.g. liposuction). It's only a half-hour to an hour a day...tell her not to take that for granted!
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