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03-25-2015, 05:55 AM
Just goes to show how radically different society can be once it is looked at through a different lens or changed. Makes me think of the some of the pronouncement that we can never escape the current feminist hellhole that is poisoning our society. Yes we can change it and escape its fate.
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03-25-2015, 09:56 AM
This program would be great and should be government mandated. I'm sure this program alone would help with all the healthcare and obesity issues more than throwing medication and surgery at it.
Although its needed I doubt it will be initiated, especially on a large scale. The current education system wouldn't allow it to. It's too difficult and requires discipline.
I was able to hear how things were changing first hand because both of my parents are/were public school teachers(My father just retired). I remember them hating every part of it and it was part of the reason my father retired. Neither of them would recommend teaching as a career now.
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03-29-2015, 06:51 AM
^^^^
It was banned after I left high school. My little sister was in high school after I was and they couldn't play then. When I was in highschool they changed to small foam balls instead of rubber balls so less people got hurt. We learned how to throw those just as hard though.
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03-29-2015, 06:33 PM
A New Hope for the next generation of kids.
PE at school for me was all over the place as the teachers I had for PE were rubbish, but they let us play and do whatever we wanted. I remember being weak as piss, but trying really hard to get my pushup count up. We had to do 10 with supposedly strict form, and I managed 12 then tried all I could to cheat and get to 17 to beat my best mate who got 15. The fittest boy at my school managed 57.... bastard.
I visited my sister recently, who has 3 kids. She was worried about her 10 year old boy in particular, that his grades are falling despite being in an elite private school for boys. I thought he was just bored, but I was by far more alarmed when he talked about his PE class one day.
Me: what did you do today?
Him: Pushups
Me: how many?
Him: 7 was the standard
Me: how many did you do?
Him: 7
Me: that's ok for your age. What was the max in your class?
Him: 7, that's what everyone did (he looked rather confused)
Me: wait, nobody tried to beat the standard or their friends?
Him: no, why? We only had to do 7?
.... and a few more questions from me just to double check I heard correctly....
They managed to beat the natural physical competitiveness out of young boys, yes they did.
My sister, being a woman, wasn't even raising an eye brow over it, and thought it might just make him less potentially "violent". On the other hand, she loved it when I taught my niece how to do push up and how competitive that little 8 year old girl was.
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04-07-2015, 11:50 AM
I live about two miles away from LA Sirrra, which is now shut down and used (as far as I know) just for adult ed and Little League baseball. That video had images of equipment they had at my middle school. They had those crazy orange monkey bars and dip bars which were incredibly difficult on campus when I was in middle school, but they were never used for P.E. The only use they got was from kids at lunch challenging each other and the occasional adult after hours who would work out on them. We were always confused why they didn't use them for P.E. since they looked challenging and fun.
The high school I attended was part of the LA Sierra fitness program at one time as well. There was a pegboard, those zigzag bars, a really high pole, pull-up bars, etc. By time I got into highschool in 2003, they had torn up all that equipment and used that space for the football team. I remember seeing the equipment as a kid and looking forward to using it (the pegboard especially). It's another depressing reminder of how far we've fallen as a nation.