Re: stress in high school students


"Ericka Kammerer" <eek@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:K6CdnTzieZOVE7ranZ2dnUVZ_tmhnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Clisby wrote:

That was my experience. I don't recall a single thing about PE that would have either helped overweight students to lose weight, or to teach about physical fitness in general. I'm perfectly willing to believe that PE courses have improved - which is no doubt why Americans are so much more fit and less likely to be obese than when I took PE 40 years ago.

I think that in general, PE classes have improved, but
by and large the trend has been towards fewer PE requirements.
Certainly the middle and high school PE classes around here
bear little resemblance to the classes I took.

In the middle schools around here, the differences between PE in my day, and PE now seems to make it worse. PE still is picking teams and playing sports. The kids good at sports do well. The kids not so good at sports get made fun of. Since PE is now co-ed, more girls than boys are falling on the "not do well scale". My athletic daughter, despite being one of the better players on her all girl soccer team, feels she's pretty mediocre athletically, as in PE she's in the bottom half when it comes to pretty much any sport. There are rules about wearing PE uniforms, but that is pretty much the only rules. (And the rules tend to encourage sharing sweaty uniforms.) It is not uncommon for kids to get hurt in PE. And there are no showers, so even if one wanted to shower after physical activity, there is no way. So the kids who care about that make sure they aren't exerting themselves too much in PE, so they won't sweat. I haven't seen anything in the PE curriculum that would give me cause to think it would help any of these kids with their present or future health.

My older daughter managed to get out of PE, by auditioning into advanced dance. She was the only incoming Freshman to pass the audition that year. So I'm not sure how the regular PE classes are in high school. She said her friends hated PE, more than any other class. I can't even imagine how bad they had to screw up PE to make kids hate it most.

As to the original post, the phrase "mandatory yoga class" just cracked me up. Are there really yoga instructors that would teach a class the students were forced to be at?

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