Get Rid of PE and Bullying In Schools

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Telling anyone would not have helped source. I was ganged up by 12 kids once while delivering newspapers, went to the police station (which was on my route at the time) and was told that I needed to learn how to fight back.

Buffalo police then wondered why I would never support the PBA.

I seem to be working myself up here. I strongly agree with most of what Roybertito has to say. I don't se the purpose of PE. Team sports seem to bring the worst out in people.
Last year our class was taught how to count calories. How is a person going to learn how to feel comfertable in their own skin if their school system is teaching them to constantly watch their weight? In any case, the schools should focus less on team sports, and more on a healthy but moderate work out. The students should be able to choose from a large variety of sports; yoga, dance, gymnastics, running (and so on) and maybe the occasional team sport. However, this, in my opinion, should be optional.

What PE should be is you decide the method on how you are going to get your exercise in (team sports, single sports, exercise machines, etc) and as long as you keep your heart at the optimal rate for 30 seconds plus warmup and cool down, you should pass.

Holy Moly! That'd be scary. But wouldn't that be really suspicious??? I'm thinking I'd be pretty suspicious if I looked out the window one day and saw one guy running down the road, being chased by 40 other kids.

Early in the afternoon, no parents are home. Everyone is at work, and the kids run amok until around 5 p.m. The only reason my mom found out about it was because I had to run to my cousin's place. It was closer then my apartment, and I couldn't outrun them for long. I was pretty lucky that day because another relative was visiting so my cousin's mother had taken the day off. My cousin's mother called my mom and told her everything that happened. My mom called the cops when she got to the apartment because some of the kids were still outside waiting for me. The cops warned the kids, and after that day the bullying was a lot more verbal and less physical.

Yeah, that one's happened to me too. And I lived across the street from the f*cking school to boot.

The more different you are, the less people give a sh*t.

When colonies are established on the moon, let's hope everyone other than us leaves so we'll have the planet to ourselves.

That's terrible. Sounds like a real Lord of the Flies scenario.

And these people who get bullied in PE are being bullied outside of PE, anyway. So deal with the bullying, not PE. Duh.

When you get picked on due to your poor co-ordiantion, P.E. only serves to make it worse as you'd have known had you paid attention to my posts.

In my school there are like 20 in one grade that play this "game" where they try to be the last one too touch each other and somthing tells them thats ok in the hallway the bad part these are BIG kids so I am walking in the hallway going to class when a giant comes ramming into me followed by another giant running over me over me and when there teacher catchs them heres what they say (brace yourselfs) "We were just fighting! ".

I've hated having to take PE during the first three years of High School. I've had both very weak Athletic Skills and a Cockney Accent, so I've felt that I was living up to the Stereotype of "The Nerd with the Accent". I've had to deal with that, every single day, from the beginning of Grade Ten until the last week of my Grade 10 Year. I was always picked last. However, I was treated like Royalty, because of my Accent. The girls in my PE Class would switch between those two extreames, and all that I've wanted was to be treated the way that they've treated one another. Not like Scum, one minute and Royalty the next. Two-faced buggers!

I had poor co-ordination too in PE, but I didn't get bullied about it. Why? Because there was adequate supervision, and responsible anti-bullying policies in place.

I had poor co-ordination too in PE, but I didn't get bullied about it. Why? Because there was adequate supervision, and responsible anti-bullying policies in place.

Ah, see, if they get punished, all that happens is you end up back in squar eone.

How about having a specialized PE class? I was in one of those and I did just fine. If there is no speicalized class, there are ways to get out of it via the ADA laws.

I am also not coordinated and I never saw the point of sports.

"If a few students off themselves, so what, they were damaged goods anyways and they needed to tossed. The goods were no good to their masters and in large numbers, they could be dangerous. That is why the saying "If you would only change to be more like the rest of the group". "

Went to a district like that. I was grateful I moved to one that understood me and didn't have this attitude. How many more dead children is it going to take before people wake up and realize that bullying is a problem?

<quote>How many more dead children is it going to take before people wake up and realize that bullying is a problem?</quote>

If the system is working as it is intended to work, they I would have to say an infinite number because no amount of children killing themselves will change things.

I agree with this.

I don't think getting rid of PE is an option, much of it has been cut due to that joke called NCLB and standardized tests. There's already a serious epidemic of childhood obesity, which if there were more variety in PE classes, this could be dealt with. There needs to be more options than team sports or running the mile, which got me to hate running to this day. Schools would be better off with various activities that would appeal to a wide variety of interests, and promote fitness as part of a healthy lifestyle.

I really hated dodgeball in school, there was this one kid who would throw the ball at you so hard, you'd get knocked to the ground. I was the one who got targeted the most as he was one of the many bullies I had to deal with. PE wasn't the only time I was bullied, it happened throughout the school day, and when I told the teacher, she usually said that I was making it up, or that it was somehow my fault.

Despite that, PE has some good possibilities, at least in high school, I was able to use the marching band as PE credit as it was something I enjoyed.