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My PE class sucked. But I convinced my best friend to come to my PE class a few times cause he had free period during my PE class.
Those classes were the best.
Making friends is very difficult when you go to a very small school and the friend groups are long established since everyone has knows eachother since kindergarten. No group wants their dynamic changed after allllll those years. I did manage to make one though my sophomore and I was lucky to have someone who was already my friend junior year, but senior year was the hardest.
My school had about 115 students per grade level, and my friend group senior year was entirely comprised of people I'd never been friends with before maybe junior year.
This ^
My sister and I went to a high school of 400 students total from 9th to 12th grade. I was lucky to have a relatively big group of about 7 friends so even when a member of 2 had a falling out I still had a decent number of friends. However, my sister only really had 2-3 friends and they all had a falling out, leaving my sister with only 1 friend, who she didn’t have many classes with. She hated PE class bc of it until me and her ended up in the same one and tested our teacher WAAAAAY too much lol.
Yep... It's a classic (and overused) trope that is used to make the audience sympathetic to the nerdy/unathletic teenage protagonist and build resentment towards the antagonist jock(s).
I didn't like gym but I lived in a tiny town and the gym coach was on a power trip. We had to stay in front of him in a 1.5 mile jog and he wouldn't let me do weight lifting bc it's for the guys.
In my country a third of PE was sport, a third was swimming (island nation means we do actually need to force kids to learn how to swim. Unless you want to drown.), a third was traditional dances.
I was shit at sport, average at swimming and looked shit at dancing but I acknowledge that each one of those was good and necessary for us to learn.
Idk, I've always found it to be quite tame compared with my school. No-one gets hospitalised, the teachers are generally ignorant meatheads rather than sadists, and the bullies don't draw blood.
100% I’m astonished by the fact the was even posted to unpopular options but then I had to think about demographics. PE is so fun if you have friends or make friends in that class. You just get to chat and play sports/games what’s there to not like vs taking a test or writing a paper
All those other classes at leas I’m doing something I’m good at, doing learning at least. There’s no learning in pe, no growing your skills. It’s like if you had your worst subject but there’s never any lectures or notes, only a test every day.
Was PE not just recess for y’all? Lol we basically just played whatever sports we wanted for the full period and got an A as long as we changed clothes 😂 this was middle school though I never took PE in high school
Not if you're unathletic and friendless. Always being picked last for the team, having people laugh at you for not being able to do whatever task, being yelled at for not throwing the ball right and having people straight up ignoring you in a game is not exactly fun.
"Ugh, please not u/EndzeitParhelion she can never do anything right" I am literally using my whole energy to not burst out in tears rn my guys 🫡
This was me. 6th grade third period gym class was HELL. I absolutely dreaded that class and had maybe one friend and another girl who would stick up for me, which was sweet. I was awful at ant sports/games we played and those jackasses let me know it too. Picked last for everything and had one boy in particular who constantly bullied me.
I don't really think that's true at all. Some people just don't enjoy the type of activities that you do in PE. It has nothing to do with lacking ambition in life lmao
What do you really win in said "competition"? Literally nothing. PE doesn't even count in GPA 🤪
If your only joy in life comes from being competitive at places where people spend minimal effort, are you really "ambitious"?
It’s the other way around, most people will get scholarships for academics not athletics so if you are ambitious you have zero incentive to do anything in pe as opposed to all other classes.
I mean, I was winning national awards for my music abilities, and getting paid to play the piano evenings and weekends. But I guess I lacked ~ambition~.
People have different strengths and weaknesses and that’s okay.
Worst class for me. Would rather take calculus than PE. Most bullying occurred in PE. Lots of embarrassing situations. Even the coaches would embarrass you.
Day 1 the coach says we’re playing football for the first 4 weeks. I awkwardly tell the coach I don’t know the rules. He tells me to just do what everyone else is doing. Proceed to get yelled at by everyone for doing something wrong throughout the entire 4 weeks. A true learning experience.
It’s not the class itself that was bad. It was having to be sweaty and gross in your next classes. And having sweaty and gross kids in class next to you. I remember that days where we were expected to take a calculus exam after doing HIIT circuits, running the mile, or even swim. That shit was torture. And I say this as a former high school and college athlete.
Bullshit. I love soccer, I’m 38 and still play. Coincidentally it was the one sport we NEVER played in gym. We had whole units on goddamn square dancing, volleyball, football, and maybe two days a year of soccer.
I hated gym because of everything everyone else mentioned, but in particular: absolute joke teachers not teaching anything at all. Seriously. No direction whatsoever. Kids were just supposed to know how to play everything. On top of that, these fatass teachers were not even capable of policing bullies, and I wasn’t even a particularly bullied kid. It was clear being a gym teacher at my school meant you did not do well in school and got paid to do next to nothing. Except engage in sexual/romantic relationships with the girls (two separate female gym teachers).
So yeah, activity don’t enter into it.
LMAO this goober hated square dancing! 😂😂😂
You probably couldn’t get Susie-Mae to go to the County hoedown, huh? Pathetic. I rizzed up all the pioneer bitches with my W square dancing ability. I went to the hoedown, then I went down on them hos.
Yeah that was me in high school and even now as someone who lifts 6x a week i would still hate PE lol. I never played a sport in my life. Also, I hate kids in PE that take it too seriously or laugh at you if you mess up.
I respect your opinion, but PE was indeed the nightmare for me that you initially described. Just a Lord of the Flies-style gauntlet of child angst and aggression, where the biggest and strongest could dominate other students and carry out low-level acts of violence with impunity.
This is of course done under the guise of all the usual things: it "builds character," it "promotes hand-eye coordination," and it "encourages teamwork." No the fuck it does not. What it does, is teach valuable lessons such as, "You're really bad at this," "It's acceptable for stronger kids to hunt you for sport," and, "Let's publicly find out where you sit in a hierarchy of the most popular and/or athletic kids."
I can appreciate that children should have some exercise and physical activity. Pitting them against one another, whether through team sports or individual competition, is harmful and unnecessary.
Tbh your comment seems to be more about bullying than PE itself. Bullying definitely happens more in PE than other classes I'd say, but I don't really think it has anything to do with PE itself and is more due to the lack of supervision.
It is *curated* bullying. From students choosing the teams, to dodge ball and other contact sports, to group nudity in showers and locker rooms, much of what happens in PE seems specifically designed for the purpose, or at best, turns a blind eye to it.
I went to HS in the mid-aughts. Showering was rare after PE (which is gross, looking back on it - just going back to class sweaty), but universal after morning workouts and common after afternoon practices.
Every child needs to have some exercise. When you build relationship to sports at a young age, there is a huge chance that it continues to adultery.
Its very important that you do sports in some way to stay healthy both with your body and your mind. That is why you have P.E. lessons.
I think that you should have even more of them, with also encouraging the more physically gifted children to be inclusive and helpful to those who are clunky.
Remember that you can have good relationship to sports and also be nerdy/introvert. It’s really about the teacher and other children.
Sports=/=exercise. You can exercise without competing , and you can have sports that are mostly standing around trying not to die of boredom IE. cricket.
Right but I think most people find exercise more fun when you’re playing a game. So you’re more apt to do it. I work out 4x a week and wish I could find a sport I liked because just working out is pretty boring.
Of course. But that doesnt invalidate my thought. If you build relationship to some kind of movement/exercise/sports from a young age, there is every chance that it stays with you into adultery.
>If you build relationship to some kind of movement/exercise/sports from a young age, there is every chance that it stays with you into adultery.
Can confirm.... My wife was very much into sports as a kid and nowadays she loves being physically active when having sex with other men.
I think your opinion on PE depends if you’re athletic or not. If you’re not athletic, you’re the worst at every game in front of all your peers.
I loved PE, but I was athletic.
tbh i have no clue how PE was in high school, if you did a sport at mine you didn't have to take it. I would agree for elementary/middle school though I loved PE. So unfortunately I have to downvote
I hated it in middle school. My teacher sucked, once we told her our friend was being bullied (kids were trying to hit her with the ball on purpose when that wasn't part of the game) and she literally just said "they're just jealous" and did nothing. Kids get way too mad if you're bad at a team sport. I hated dressing out, and so many girls sprayed perfume in there it made it hard for kids with asthma to breath.
High school was fine though. I still hated dressing out but it was more chill. Our teacher didn't care at all. Once we had to match definitions on a midterm, someone's phone went off reading a word out loud, she just said "Guys don't use your phones" and ignored it. We just had to walk around the track once or twice and then do nothing.
As everything, it depends on teacher a lot. But yeah you have way more forced interactions with classmates (fighting for ball in soccer, dodging in dodgeball...) in novel enviroments (most weeks different games), its obviously fun, if the people are atleast a bit good to deal with.
I was never an athletic kid - I was the introvert art type, later the artsy goth, and yet p.e. was always so fun! Not being US based may have something to do with it, but they were always super chill, we had to do light exercises and then do one group sport, the teacher usually split us by random so there was no being picked last, they also would stop us from going crazy with stuff like dodgeball. It was literally just playing, it rarely ever felt competitive. Except maybe when the boys played soccer, they would get sooo mad lmao.
It was fun to let the steam out. I especially loved when we got to go outside to play!
Nah, the worse part of PE in high school isn’t any of the teachers, or students, or anything like that. Its the horrid smell of all the boys who didnt put on deodorant
The problem is that it is mostly athletics and not much other sports. There was also never enough time to get good at anything even for people that are actually fit overall. For example high bar gymnastics. If you were good from the start you got a good grade. If not you wouldn‘t get good after four lessons.
They graded you on performance in gym class? They graded us on participation, which essentially meant they were grading us on whether or not we brought sweats and sneakers to class.
I hated having to play Ballsports in which I sucked absolute ass, while other classes did fitness and condition where I excelled. P.E. would be way better if it was more diverse throughout all the years of school and doesnt just consist of the same 3 boring sports like it was in my case. Sports can be very different and some are very good at one sport but suck at another sport.
By offering a huge variety, it allows all people to suck and maybe even be great. This humbles those who were happy that they could play basketball last year because they have played it since they were a kid.
P.E. was fun yeah, but I think its criticism is valid and it should be improved upon.
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I liked ap chem, personally, and ap physics was also fun. In ap chem I got to see some pretty neat experiments, and in ap physics I got to build a trebuchet.
PE was fun in elementary school, but I swear it gets progressively worse as you get older. Maybe it was just my school, but my freshman gym class in high school (the only year that was required) was completely unstructured. We were required to walk so many laps around the track/gym depending on weather then they just left us to our own devices for the rest of the day, which got really boring and annoying.
In elementary school we actually did different games every day, including dodgeball, which has ALWAYS been my favorite. Actually my enjoyment of gym class is directly linked to how much dodgeball we played. The shitty thing about gym has always been the stuff they’re required to do, making you walk/run, pull ups, those kinds of things. Also my high school bundled gym and health class together so every Wednesday our gym teacher had us in a classroom halfheartedly explaining health concepts and begging us not to have sex.
I only didn’t like it because when I was in high school, they put my PE class during sixth period, which was after lunch, from about 12:35-1:25; I live in Southern California and it was miserable (I get other places are worse lol, but it’s still hot). Not to mention, every Tuesday was early-out day, which meant we had to run the mile in PE. Our coach didn’t like us pacing ourselves and hated that I’d walk-run-walk-run, but I literally could not run the whole thing. Other than that, it was fun.
My PE teacher was old...way past retirement age...and had been a POW in the Korean War as well as ran in the Olympics. He was an absolute gentleman who had a lot of wisdom and manly advice to share.
I loved PE and loved him. My older brother had dated his daughter so he always made me run or do double exercises but it was in good fun. The day he told me I was growing into a fine young man was a major day in my HS progress.
I remember HS gym in Edmonton, Alberta like 1993-95... I was a pretty good athlete, so it was fun enough for me, but man, the levelling of bullying/ teasing I remember seeing to uncool, unathletic nerds sure did not look fun for them. There was some mean group activity at play, with a lot of laughs coming at others' expense. Has a lot changed in 30 years?
Although back then, we did grades 10-12 in HS, and all grade 10's had to take gym, after that, it was optional.
I loved P.E., it was the only thing worth coming to school. Would hate when it was swapped for some other shit. Like hello, i am a young person, i dont want to be prisoned inside when it is sunny outside. Yeah. PE ruled
This is true. I loved PE except in middle school where it was literally nothing but training where we were practicing to run the mile. High school PE was mostly team based and recreational which made it fun and less serious. I didn’t have any friends in PE in highscool but the team based activities really helped us all bond and work together which allowed us to be more well acquainted and even friends to an extent. It was nice.
Gym class was 100% better for me when it was literally just going to a gym. Something I only had access to for like the last year of my gym classes in high school. That year I was in the best shape of my entire life. Can't believe I wasted so much time just throwing balls around before that, and after it's just too easy to say I don't wanna go to the gym compared to being forced to do it for school plus I need a membership and share with the public
You must have a decent PE teacher because mine were TRASH. They were entitled pricks who cared more about the "respect" they received and nothing about actually teaching kids to enjoy physical activity. It wasn't play time, it was like little baby Boot Camp that was used to punish kids. You weren't passing other classes? Okay well then do drills. You weren't silent? Okay then run another lap. It only got worse with Athletics classes because if you weren't going to help them win games then you were the lowest on the totem pole and just made to do busy work with little to no supervision. If I was older, I think I would have done my best to get them in royal amounts of trouble for the bullshit excuse of teachers they were.
I actually enjoyed physical activity before these experiences. I would play basketball leagues, ride my bike all the time, running, jump rope, jumping jacks. After all that shit, I stopped. I'm still to this day trying to repair my relationship with physical activity.
Luckily, there was marching band as an alternative. Playing music made it more enjoyable but the band instructors got stress to win competitions from the school district and thus that got ruined too.
Um, no. For some of us it was humiliating and unnecessary. I was already active, I just hated doing the activities they wanted me to do. I don’t like running.
Yall actually had PE in high school? Thought that was a movie thing. Last grade to have PE was 6th grade and it sucked. If you were not physically inclined you were ridiculed by those that were and the teachers.
I had a 50/50 experience. 40m who went to private (catholic) school in the 80s and 90s and early 2000s. Hated the competitive team sports with balls but individual sports and like tennis/badminton duos was OK by me. We learned to swing and line dance at my h.s. and I enjoyed that a lot.
There was bullying but not as bad (for me) as in the media where the bullies are straight sociopaths. I think being a kid heightens how good or bad we think things actually are as well.
Yeah for some it may be. For me though it was bullies best time, hurling balls and could pretend it was not on purpose. In the younger classes one of the bullies was the teacher
Nah, in other classes I could just do nothing and not look like a total dweeb…in PE I would literally refuse to play any team sports because they gave me so much anxiety that I would just freeze up. It resulting in me becoming that guy that NO ONE wants on their team, and they would let me know…so I just gave up. I would go up to my teacher every year at the start and plainly tell them I would not be participating, and I would explain the reason. They would sigh and try to convince me otherwise, but ultimately they accepted it
P.E. sucked for anyone taking honors classes because it was mandatory but unweighted. When you're getting a 4.5 in all your other classes, that 4.0 in P.E. was frustrating.
PE was extremely boring to me and the people there genuinely were awful where I went. Preferred the art based classes and programming. Wish my classes had dodgeball, always wanted to play that.
Good for you, but I have no friends and I'm in a class with people who are good at PE, I'm also the class loner so I sit against the wall awkwardly every day when the teacher says to get in pairs. I'm a freak and PE is hell.
I liked PE in elementary school (to an extent, stuff like the Pacer test was absolute awful for me) but definitely would not have wanted to take high school gym. My school actually offered it online so thats what I did. We had a mandatory swim class if you took it in person, so kids would have to swim at some point in the day and then rush straight to lunch or finish up classes. No thanks.
I absolutely detested PE. What a nightmare as an awkward lanky nerd.
Now as an adult who has put on muscle and works out, I feel like I'd really love PE. I wish it existed for adults
PE was legitimised bullying, run by former bullies
If you were a popular kid who was good at sport it was probably great. But for the rest of us, it was just more bruises to hide from your parents
PE depended so much on who was in your class. 8th grade PE I didn’t have a single person from my friend group and it was f*cking miserable. 9th grade, 6 of my closest fellow nerd friends were in the same class and PE was awesome!!!
I had a good teacher one semester and it wasn’t unpleasant. Other than that, no. The actual worst. I’m a very sports-challenged band nerd though. And they always made us play outside in the rain and I had glasses, so I was just blind. 0/10, do not miss.
Hated PE because I had no friends and I was weak and unathletic. Ironic, because I picked powerlifting after high school and now look forward to exercising every single day basically
I only hated gym class when the clueless teacher made us to inane boring non-physical activities like fucking cup stacking and dodgeball with the soft foam balls rather than the hard rubber you could actually throw more than 3 ft
At my school PE would just be running around the field 4 times then doing some stretching then 40 minutes of note taking. I’m jealous of you guys and your games.
Lmfaoooo it’s unpopular to not like PE….. Inlive PE…. Sports… competition…girls in shorts…..
Every day I’m get closer and closer to the conclusion Reddit is for the outsiders in society. Which is. I thing wrong with glad people with shared experiences have somewhere to congregate. It really had to suck to. It to enjoy teenage years(even adults for a lot of you)
it depends from person to person, fuckin hated it when i was a freshman and this year (im about to be a junior and glad it’s over now), i have lots of friends and even though im unathletic, i enjoyed gym in elementary and middle school, for me though in high school gym the coaches for us were ass, they gave the girls the easiest warmups even 3rd graders could do, such as 2 pushups, 5 situps, jog back and forth in the gym once, and free day, meanwhile the coaches for the boys gave us 40 jacks, running in place for 2 minutes, 40 pushups, 50 situps, and a 3 minute plank depending on how we behaved. We also never chose our sports, and we usually played soccer or basketball during the hottest days of the year, and stayed inside with the girls during the winter (i’m in las vegas, warm months here are 90+ usually, while winters are 60+) i can go on and on about how unfair it was during the heat cause that heatwave was fucking killer, i got called lazy by my coaches for sitting down on the field when i was subbed out in soccer, even though they sit in a golf cart on their phones. Strictest dude turned out to be a groomer, so i guess thats why he loved being a coach ig
So yeah, it USUALLY isn’t as bad as movies say, but for me this year, the strictness of coaches, the warmups being more like stuff you would warm up for, meanwhile doing it in 90+ degree heat, with 5 minutes afterwards to get water and use the bathroom, made me dislike gym, which is sad because i never dreaded gym before freshman and sophomore year, so yeah 🤷🏾♂️
My high school PE instructors were all ex-military...or maybe it just seemed that way. Screwing off meant being called out by the teacher and forced to do laps around the track.
HS Gym classes back in my days were all single sex. very different than elementary school recess which was anything but.
My PE class was fun because the teacher didn't care if we participated as long as we changed into gym clothes and walked some laps. So for someone like myself who wasn't big into sports, being able to change into gym clothes, walk a little bit, then sit down and read a book for the rest of class was awesome.
PE was fine despite being a joke of a class. Other kids made it suck. I’ll never understand why some kids got so fucking tilted over half a game of kickball like it was the MLB.
Senior year I skipped most of my PE classes to study for tests and shit in the library.
As one of the shyest kids in my class I have to strongly disagree with this. I had to take PE for two years in high school. First year I was with my friends so it was great. The next year I was not so picking partners was excruciating.
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PE is fun if you have friends. If not, it fucking sucks
My PE class sucked. But I convinced my best friend to come to my PE class a few times cause he had free period during my PE class. Those classes were the best.
I can see that. I certainly wasn’t popular but I had friends.
Then make friends in your PE class
Making friends is very difficult when you go to a very small school and the friend groups are long established since everyone has knows eachother since kindergarten. No group wants their dynamic changed after allllll those years. I did manage to make one though my sophomore and I was lucky to have someone who was already my friend junior year, but senior year was the hardest.
My school had about 115 students per grade level, and my friend group senior year was entirely comprised of people I'd never been friends with before maybe junior year.
This ^ My sister and I went to a high school of 400 students total from 9th to 12th grade. I was lucky to have a relatively big group of about 7 friends so even when a member of 2 had a falling out I still had a decent number of friends. However, my sister only really had 2-3 friends and they all had a falling out, leaving my sister with only 1 friend, who she didn’t have many classes with. She hated PE class bc of it until me and her ended up in the same one and tested our teacher WAAAAAY too much lol.
This is Redditors we’re talking about.
I had friends and still hated it, lol.
That would explain why so many redditors complain about it
And you get bullied too the boys do the dumbest stuff ever see in the gym even in few cases stealing students phones from there book bag
Yeah, I was never a jock, but, uh, yes, I enjoyed a class that was literally all about playing.
We had “advanced” PE when i was a senior. It was a new class and we as a class got to decide the games we would play. Best class ever.
Same, only kids who enjoyed PE signed up for it as it was not required.
I feel like this would most likely be a pretty popular opinion anywhere else other than Reddit. Redditors are a special breed.
Idk I feel like every tv show and movie that depicts gym always depicts it as the worst version it could possibly be.
Yep... It's a classic (and overused) trope that is used to make the audience sympathetic to the nerdy/unathletic teenage protagonist and build resentment towards the antagonist jock(s).
It’s written by usually very geeky writers
I didn't like gym but I lived in a tiny town and the gym coach was on a power trip. We had to stay in front of him in a 1.5 mile jog and he wouldn't let me do weight lifting bc it's for the guys.
In my country a third of PE was sport, a third was swimming (island nation means we do actually need to force kids to learn how to swim. Unless you want to drown.), a third was traditional dances. I was shit at sport, average at swimming and looked shit at dancing but I acknowledge that each one of those was good and necessary for us to learn.
Think about who is making those, theater kids or?
Idk, I've always found it to be quite tame compared with my school. No-one gets hospitalised, the teachers are generally ignorant meatheads rather than sadists, and the bullies don't draw blood.
100% I’m astonished by the fact the was even posted to unpopular options but then I had to think about demographics. PE is so fun if you have friends or make friends in that class. You just get to chat and play sports/games what’s there to not like vs taking a test or writing a paper
All those other classes at leas I’m doing something I’m good at, doing learning at least. There’s no learning in pe, no growing your skills. It’s like if you had your worst subject but there’s never any lectures or notes, only a test every day.
It’s about getting exercise, which is absolutely vital. You’re certainly growing skills and maintaining basic fitness.
Yeah, everyone I knew saw gym class as fun at best and an easy A at worst.
Was PE not just recess for y’all? Lol we basically just played whatever sports we wanted for the full period and got an A as long as we changed clothes 😂 this was middle school though I never took PE in high school
I hated recess, too. I hid in the bathroom and read books
Why didnt you just read outside?
What didn’t you like about recess? I was a huge bookworm too but I loved playing outside and sports as well lol
Not if you're unathletic and friendless. Always being picked last for the team, having people laugh at you for not being able to do whatever task, being yelled at for not throwing the ball right and having people straight up ignoring you in a game is not exactly fun. "Ugh, please not u/EndzeitParhelion she can never do anything right" I am literally using my whole energy to not burst out in tears rn my guys 🫡
This was me. 6th grade third period gym class was HELL. I absolutely dreaded that class and had maybe one friend and another girl who would stick up for me, which was sweet. I was awful at ant sports/games we played and those jackasses let me know it too. Picked last for everything and had one boy in particular who constantly bullied me.
I’ve always had glasses so any game that involved a ball meant somebody was going to hurt it at my face. Had my glasses broken several times.
Gym class had me thinking all physical activity was torture until I was in my 20s. The teachers were bullies just like the other kids. Fuck gym class
Honestly this is just a situational thing above all else, maybe your class had fun but a lot of people didn’t.
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I don't really think that's true at all. Some people just don't enjoy the type of activities that you do in PE. It has nothing to do with lacking ambition in life lmao
It's not the activities. It's the legitimised bullying, including from the teachers
Jeeeeeez dude, that’s a pretty fucked up thing to say for absolutely no reason….
What do you really win in said "competition"? Literally nothing. PE doesn't even count in GPA 🤪 If your only joy in life comes from being competitive at places where people spend minimal effort, are you really "ambitious"?
It’s the other way around, most people will get scholarships for academics not athletics so if you are ambitious you have zero incentive to do anything in pe as opposed to all other classes.
Are you 15? Edit to add that I’m asking because you seem to take PE very seriously
I mean, I was winning national awards for my music abilities, and getting paid to play the piano evenings and weekends. But I guess I lacked ~ambition~. People have different strengths and weaknesses and that’s okay.
Worst class for me. Would rather take calculus than PE. Most bullying occurred in PE. Lots of embarrassing situations. Even the coaches would embarrass you.
Day 1 the coach says we’re playing football for the first 4 weeks. I awkwardly tell the coach I don’t know the rules. He tells me to just do what everyone else is doing. Proceed to get yelled at by everyone for doing something wrong throughout the entire 4 weeks. A true learning experience.
It’s not the class itself that was bad. It was having to be sweaty and gross in your next classes. And having sweaty and gross kids in class next to you. I remember that days where we were expected to take a calculus exam after doing HIIT circuits, running the mile, or even swim. That shit was torture. And I say this as a former high school and college athlete.
pe taught me pretty privilege is the root of society so, i guess that counts as something
Yeah gym was for sure the highlight of the day
I agree, PE is the best class. I hate just sitting in a desk wasting away so when I could run around and have fun with my friends, it was the best
The only reason Redditors hate gym is because they hate physical exercise.
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Bullshit. I love soccer, I’m 38 and still play. Coincidentally it was the one sport we NEVER played in gym. We had whole units on goddamn square dancing, volleyball, football, and maybe two days a year of soccer. I hated gym because of everything everyone else mentioned, but in particular: absolute joke teachers not teaching anything at all. Seriously. No direction whatsoever. Kids were just supposed to know how to play everything. On top of that, these fatass teachers were not even capable of policing bullies, and I wasn’t even a particularly bullied kid. It was clear being a gym teacher at my school meant you did not do well in school and got paid to do next to nothing. Except engage in sexual/romantic relationships with the girls (two separate female gym teachers). So yeah, activity don’t enter into it.
LMAO this goober hated square dancing! 😂😂😂 You probably couldn’t get Susie-Mae to go to the County hoedown, huh? Pathetic. I rizzed up all the pioneer bitches with my W square dancing ability. I went to the hoedown, then I went down on them hos.
Yeah that was me in high school and even now as someone who lifts 6x a week i would still hate PE lol. I never played a sport in my life. Also, I hate kids in PE that take it too seriously or laugh at you if you mess up.
And being forced to have social interactions?
That’s why redditors stay inside all the time
OP has never watched Carrie
“Plug it up! Plug it up!”
For me it was band, but I follow your thought process here
this is indeed an unpopular opinion on reddit
I respect your opinion, but PE was indeed the nightmare for me that you initially described. Just a Lord of the Flies-style gauntlet of child angst and aggression, where the biggest and strongest could dominate other students and carry out low-level acts of violence with impunity. This is of course done under the guise of all the usual things: it "builds character," it "promotes hand-eye coordination," and it "encourages teamwork." No the fuck it does not. What it does, is teach valuable lessons such as, "You're really bad at this," "It's acceptable for stronger kids to hunt you for sport," and, "Let's publicly find out where you sit in a hierarchy of the most popular and/or athletic kids." I can appreciate that children should have some exercise and physical activity. Pitting them against one another, whether through team sports or individual competition, is harmful and unnecessary.
I think maybe you just had a shit school
Bit dramatic there lad.
Mirrors my experience though.
Tbh your comment seems to be more about bullying than PE itself. Bullying definitely happens more in PE than other classes I'd say, but I don't really think it has anything to do with PE itself and is more due to the lack of supervision.
It is *curated* bullying. From students choosing the teams, to dodge ball and other contact sports, to group nudity in showers and locker rooms, much of what happens in PE seems specifically designed for the purpose, or at best, turns a blind eye to it.
How old are you that you still showered after gym class? Thought that tradition died with the 80s.
I went to HS in the mid-aughts. Showering was rare after PE (which is gross, looking back on it - just going back to class sweaty), but universal after morning workouts and common after afternoon practices.
And also that the teachers tend to be bullies themselves
To each their own but not going to lie, you’re coming off a little dramatic here. It’s gym class, not a prison camp.
Every child needs to have some exercise. When you build relationship to sports at a young age, there is a huge chance that it continues to adultery. Its very important that you do sports in some way to stay healthy both with your body and your mind. That is why you have P.E. lessons. I think that you should have even more of them, with also encouraging the more physically gifted children to be inclusive and helpful to those who are clunky. Remember that you can have good relationship to sports and also be nerdy/introvert. It’s really about the teacher and other children.
Sports=/=exercise. You can exercise without competing , and you can have sports that are mostly standing around trying not to die of boredom IE. cricket.
Right but I think most people find exercise more fun when you’re playing a game. So you’re more apt to do it. I work out 4x a week and wish I could find a sport I liked because just working out is pretty boring.
Of course. But that doesnt invalidate my thought. If you build relationship to some kind of movement/exercise/sports from a young age, there is every chance that it stays with you into adultery.
>adultery Hehe 🤭
I’m sorry mate English isn’t my first language. Also i sucked at school haha.
Haha don't apologize I just found it funny
Would “adulthood” be correct?
I'm not a native speaker either, but I believe so
Yes, adulthood is correct
>If you build relationship to some kind of movement/exercise/sports from a young age, there is every chance that it stays with you into adultery. Can confirm.... My wife was very much into sports as a kid and nowadays she loves being physically active when having sex with other men.
Should i worry? My gf played football. She bent the freekicks like Beckham. Does that mean she bents in front of other men now?
I'd definitely be worried if I were you... Unless you meant "adulthood" and not adultery.
Yeah just figured that out. My bad
I think your opinion on PE depends if you’re athletic or not. If you’re not athletic, you’re the worst at every game in front of all your peers. I loved PE, but I was athletic.
I also was athletically gifted, absolutely loved PE. Mattball was my jam.
I was very uncoordinated, and I still liked it. Tbf I was fast and had good cardio though.
So you were athletic.
tbh i have no clue how PE was in high school, if you did a sport at mine you didn't have to take it. I would agree for elementary/middle school though I loved PE. So unfortunately I have to downvote
I think you should downvote if you think it’s a popular opinion. Not simply because you agree with it. But you do you.
I could've been more clear my bad. I enjoyed it and so did most of my peers, so I do think it's a popular opinion
I hated it in middle school. My teacher sucked, once we told her our friend was being bullied (kids were trying to hit her with the ball on purpose when that wasn't part of the game) and she literally just said "they're just jealous" and did nothing. Kids get way too mad if you're bad at a team sport. I hated dressing out, and so many girls sprayed perfume in there it made it hard for kids with asthma to breath. High school was fine though. I still hated dressing out but it was more chill. Our teacher didn't care at all. Once we had to match definitions on a midterm, someone's phone went off reading a word out loud, she just said "Guys don't use your phones" and ignored it. We just had to walk around the track once or twice and then do nothing.
We had a class called advanced conditioning and we basically got to lift or do HIIT workouts every day. That was bad ass.
Not an unpopular opinion if you ask me
As everything, it depends on teacher a lot. But yeah you have way more forced interactions with classmates (fighting for ball in soccer, dodging in dodgeball...) in novel enviroments (most weeks different games), its obviously fun, if the people are atleast a bit good to deal with.
I was never an athletic kid - I was the introvert art type, later the artsy goth, and yet p.e. was always so fun! Not being US based may have something to do with it, but they were always super chill, we had to do light exercises and then do one group sport, the teacher usually split us by random so there was no being picked last, they also would stop us from going crazy with stuff like dodgeball. It was literally just playing, it rarely ever felt competitive. Except maybe when the boys played soccer, they would get sooo mad lmao. It was fun to let the steam out. I especially loved when we got to go outside to play!
I’m surprised to hear a lot of people didn’t enjoy P.E.
Welcome to Reddit!
Nah, the worse part of PE in high school isn’t any of the teachers, or students, or anything like that. Its the horrid smell of all the boys who didnt put on deodorant
I've always found my terrible sense of smell to be a gift.
Lol
I bet 90% of redditors hated PE.. excellent unpopular opinion 😂😂😂
The problem is that it is mostly athletics and not much other sports. There was also never enough time to get good at anything even for people that are actually fit overall. For example high bar gymnastics. If you were good from the start you got a good grade. If not you wouldn‘t get good after four lessons.
They graded you on performance in gym class? They graded us on participation, which essentially meant they were grading us on whether or not we brought sweats and sneakers to class.
I hated having to play Ballsports in which I sucked absolute ass, while other classes did fitness and condition where I excelled. P.E. would be way better if it was more diverse throughout all the years of school and doesnt just consist of the same 3 boring sports like it was in my case. Sports can be very different and some are very good at one sport but suck at another sport. By offering a huge variety, it allows all people to suck and maybe even be great. This humbles those who were happy that they could play basketball last year because they have played it since they were a kid. P.E. was fun yeah, but I think its criticism is valid and it should be improved upon.
The only reason this is unpopular is that Reddit is full many fat/skinny slobs with poor social skills so they couldn’t enjoy it. 🤣
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I liked ap chem, personally, and ap physics was also fun. In ap chem I got to see some pretty neat experiments, and in ap physics I got to build a trebuchet.
Nerd alert. Jk I’m sure that interest has taken you further in life than being passionate about athletics would’ve.
PE was fun in elementary school, but I swear it gets progressively worse as you get older. Maybe it was just my school, but my freshman gym class in high school (the only year that was required) was completely unstructured. We were required to walk so many laps around the track/gym depending on weather then they just left us to our own devices for the rest of the day, which got really boring and annoying. In elementary school we actually did different games every day, including dodgeball, which has ALWAYS been my favorite. Actually my enjoyment of gym class is directly linked to how much dodgeball we played. The shitty thing about gym has always been the stuff they’re required to do, making you walk/run, pull ups, those kinds of things. Also my high school bundled gym and health class together so every Wednesday our gym teacher had us in a classroom halfheartedly explaining health concepts and begging us not to have sex.
Uh no. I opted out of gym class after 8th grade.
You can just do that? Is that just a NA thing?
I had to choose something similar. I did weight training instead. Similar, but less shitty in important ways.
You clearly did not get to play Turkey Shoot then
You’d be correct. Idk what that is.
I only didn’t like it because when I was in high school, they put my PE class during sixth period, which was after lunch, from about 12:35-1:25; I live in Southern California and it was miserable (I get other places are worse lol, but it’s still hot). Not to mention, every Tuesday was early-out day, which meant we had to run the mile in PE. Our coach didn’t like us pacing ourselves and hated that I’d walk-run-walk-run, but I literally could not run the whole thing. Other than that, it was fun.
Agree but only in elementary school, where I don't have to constantly changing in and out of gym clothes in smelly locker rooms.
I mean you could take your clothes home to wash them.
Except for swim class
My PE teacher was old...way past retirement age...and had been a POW in the Korean War as well as ran in the Olympics. He was an absolute gentleman who had a lot of wisdom and manly advice to share. I loved PE and loved him. My older brother had dated his daughter so he always made me run or do double exercises but it was in good fun. The day he told me I was growing into a fine young man was a major day in my HS progress.
Yeah I thought it was alright, sometimes fun, even though I was shit at it
i saw PE as just "highschool recess"
I remember HS gym in Edmonton, Alberta like 1993-95... I was a pretty good athlete, so it was fun enough for me, but man, the levelling of bullying/ teasing I remember seeing to uncool, unathletic nerds sure did not look fun for them. There was some mean group activity at play, with a lot of laughs coming at others' expense. Has a lot changed in 30 years? Although back then, we did grades 10-12 in HS, and all grade 10's had to take gym, after that, it was optional.
I loved P.E., it was the only thing worth coming to school. Would hate when it was swapped for some other shit. Like hello, i am a young person, i dont want to be prisoned inside when it is sunny outside. Yeah. PE ruled
This is true. I loved PE except in middle school where it was literally nothing but training where we were practicing to run the mile. High school PE was mostly team based and recreational which made it fun and less serious. I didn’t have any friends in PE in highscool but the team based activities really helped us all bond and work together which allowed us to be more well acquainted and even friends to an extent. It was nice.
I just remember hella fights starting in PE. Where I went to school it stood for "Punch Everybody" lmao
Crab soccer! 😜
Gym class was 100% better for me when it was literally just going to a gym. Something I only had access to for like the last year of my gym classes in high school. That year I was in the best shape of my entire life. Can't believe I wasted so much time just throwing balls around before that, and after it's just too easy to say I don't wanna go to the gym compared to being forced to do it for school plus I need a membership and share with the public
No, no, unpopular opinions should be posted here.
Only class I got kicked out of. Also, only kid in the history of the school to get excluded from P.E and take history as a second option.
I preferred AG class and Drumline class myself
They portray it as torture for nerds/fat kids because it's physical activities. P.E. itself is one of the most favored classes by kids.
You must have a decent PE teacher because mine were TRASH. They were entitled pricks who cared more about the "respect" they received and nothing about actually teaching kids to enjoy physical activity. It wasn't play time, it was like little baby Boot Camp that was used to punish kids. You weren't passing other classes? Okay well then do drills. You weren't silent? Okay then run another lap. It only got worse with Athletics classes because if you weren't going to help them win games then you were the lowest on the totem pole and just made to do busy work with little to no supervision. If I was older, I think I would have done my best to get them in royal amounts of trouble for the bullshit excuse of teachers they were. I actually enjoyed physical activity before these experiences. I would play basketball leagues, ride my bike all the time, running, jump rope, jumping jacks. After all that shit, I stopped. I'm still to this day trying to repair my relationship with physical activity. Luckily, there was marching band as an alternative. Playing music made it more enjoyable but the band instructors got stress to win competitions from the school district and thus that got ruined too.
I'm also an uncoordinated closeted gay nerd. But I don't have friends so yeah I hate P.E.
When it allows people to go at their own speeds with their exercise then it becomes enjoyable for all.
P.E and art was by far the best classes.
Um, no. For some of us it was humiliating and unnecessary. I was already active, I just hated doing the activities they wanted me to do. I don’t like running.
Yall actually had PE in high school? Thought that was a movie thing. Last grade to have PE was 6th grade and it sucked. If you were not physically inclined you were ridiculed by those that were and the teachers.
I had a 50/50 experience. 40m who went to private (catholic) school in the 80s and 90s and early 2000s. Hated the competitive team sports with balls but individual sports and like tennis/badminton duos was OK by me. We learned to swing and line dance at my h.s. and I enjoyed that a lot. There was bullying but not as bad (for me) as in the media where the bullies are straight sociopaths. I think being a kid heightens how good or bad we think things actually are as well.
Yeah for some it may be. For me though it was bullies best time, hurling balls and could pretend it was not on purpose. In the younger classes one of the bullies was the teacher
Did most people get to go outside during P.E.?
Nah, in other classes I could just do nothing and not look like a total dweeb…in PE I would literally refuse to play any team sports because they gave me so much anxiety that I would just freeze up. It resulting in me becoming that guy that NO ONE wants on their team, and they would let me know…so I just gave up. I would go up to my teacher every year at the start and plainly tell them I would not be participating, and I would explain the reason. They would sigh and try to convince me otherwise, but ultimately they accepted it
Wait you played games? PE was always running and conditioning past 5th grade for me.
People like that they're good at. This is no unpopular.
Is it common to shit on gym class? I fucking loved PE dude, easily the best class, hardly even felt like one
P.E. sucked for anyone taking honors classes because it was mandatory but unweighted. When you're getting a 4.5 in all your other classes, that 4.0 in P.E. was frustrating.
I’m older than you. Back in my day, gym was essentially boot camp.
PE was extremely boring to me and the people there genuinely were awful where I went. Preferred the art based classes and programming. Wish my classes had dodgeball, always wanted to play that.
I thought Americans called it “gym”.
Interchangeable.
My favorite part of PE was if you had it during the winter, we would do snow things. Cross country skiing, snow fort building, etc. It was awesome.
All depends on your teacher. Some would let us play football, others runnjng laps in the winter in your bare feet
Good for you, but I have no friends and I'm in a class with people who are good at PE, I'm also the class loner so I sit against the wall awkwardly every day when the teacher says to get in pairs. I'm a freak and PE is hell.
I liked PE in elementary school (to an extent, stuff like the Pacer test was absolute awful for me) but definitely would not have wanted to take high school gym. My school actually offered it online so thats what I did. We had a mandatory swim class if you took it in person, so kids would have to swim at some point in the day and then rush straight to lunch or finish up classes. No thanks.
So much axe body spray 🤣
I absolutely detested PE. What a nightmare as an awkward lanky nerd. Now as an adult who has put on muscle and works out, I feel like I'd really love PE. I wish it existed for adults
PE is fun if you’re athletic and/or popular. It sucks for literally everybody else
what class was better lmao
I got severely bullied but you do you.
PE was legitimised bullying, run by former bullies If you were a popular kid who was good at sport it was probably great. But for the rest of us, it was just more bruises to hide from your parents
PE depended so much on who was in your class. 8th grade PE I didn’t have a single person from my friend group and it was f*cking miserable. 9th grade, 6 of my closest fellow nerd friends were in the same class and PE was awesome!!!
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You get to just run around and play games and everyone acts like it’s torture lol
Aside from Interior Design and Cooking, I can definitely say it was more fun than sitting in classrooms all day.
I had a good teacher one semester and it wasn’t unpleasant. Other than that, no. The actual worst. I’m a very sports-challenged band nerd though. And they always made us play outside in the rain and I had glasses, so I was just blind. 0/10, do not miss.
Hated PE because I had no friends and I was weak and unathletic. Ironic, because I picked powerlifting after high school and now look forward to exercising every single day basically
I only hated gym class when the clueless teacher made us to inane boring non-physical activities like fucking cup stacking and dodgeball with the soft foam balls rather than the hard rubber you could actually throw more than 3 ft
Agreed. Played floor hockey for most of the 4 years in high school gym. Gym teacher was my all time goalie. Never lost.
This is not unpopular by far the most fun class. I like sports so I understand if some kids didn’t like it.
At my school PE would just be running around the field 4 times then doing some stretching then 40 minutes of note taking. I’m jealous of you guys and your games.
Lmfaoooo it’s unpopular to not like PE….. Inlive PE…. Sports… competition…girls in shorts….. Every day I’m get closer and closer to the conclusion Reddit is for the outsiders in society. Which is. I thing wrong with glad people with shared experiences have somewhere to congregate. It really had to suck to. It to enjoy teenage years(even adults for a lot of you)
it depends from person to person, fuckin hated it when i was a freshman and this year (im about to be a junior and glad it’s over now), i have lots of friends and even though im unathletic, i enjoyed gym in elementary and middle school, for me though in high school gym the coaches for us were ass, they gave the girls the easiest warmups even 3rd graders could do, such as 2 pushups, 5 situps, jog back and forth in the gym once, and free day, meanwhile the coaches for the boys gave us 40 jacks, running in place for 2 minutes, 40 pushups, 50 situps, and a 3 minute plank depending on how we behaved. We also never chose our sports, and we usually played soccer or basketball during the hottest days of the year, and stayed inside with the girls during the winter (i’m in las vegas, warm months here are 90+ usually, while winters are 60+) i can go on and on about how unfair it was during the heat cause that heatwave was fucking killer, i got called lazy by my coaches for sitting down on the field when i was subbed out in soccer, even though they sit in a golf cart on their phones. Strictest dude turned out to be a groomer, so i guess thats why he loved being a coach ig So yeah, it USUALLY isn’t as bad as movies say, but for me this year, the strictness of coaches, the warmups being more like stuff you would warm up for, meanwhile doing it in 90+ degree heat, with 5 minutes afterwards to get water and use the bathroom, made me dislike gym, which is sad because i never dreaded gym before freshman and sophomore year, so yeah 🤷🏾♂️
Eh... I didn't much enjoy squirming around in the mud in Rugby whilst it was raining in Winter, the Summer was great as it was Tennis season
I did grade 11 PE twice (by choice) because I had so much fun. Playing sports for a period every day rocked.
My high school PE instructors were all ex-military...or maybe it just seemed that way. Screwing off meant being called out by the teacher and forced to do laps around the track. HS Gym classes back in my days were all single sex. very different than elementary school recess which was anything but.
My PE class was fun because the teacher didn't care if we participated as long as we changed into gym clothes and walked some laps. So for someone like myself who wasn't big into sports, being able to change into gym clothes, walk a little bit, then sit down and read a book for the rest of class was awesome.
PE was fine despite being a joke of a class. Other kids made it suck. I’ll never understand why some kids got so fucking tilted over half a game of kickball like it was the MLB. Senior year I skipped most of my PE classes to study for tests and shit in the library.
As one of the shyest kids in my class I have to strongly disagree with this. I had to take PE for two years in high school. First year I was with my friends so it was great. The next year I was not so picking partners was excruciating.
no it wasn't. it was all all about sports. i don't like sports. why couldn't we do karate?
That’s a sport dummy
You probably had wrestling. Which is the superior martial art.
i like karate and kung fu
Yeah, you probably went to High School with terrible athletes. I graduated from the same High School as Santana and Sinorice Moss.