idiggory, King of Bards wrote:
[EDIT]In NJ, you need 4 years of English and, I think, 4 years of Math. 3 years of lab science and History. You need PE every year you are in school, though you can opt out if you participate in other extra-curricular athletics (subject to your school's restrictions). The only classes I had to take my senior year were English and PE, because I had taken Statistics and AP Biology earlier. Had they offered AP Lit before my senior year, it would have been very easy for me to graduate early.
idiggory, King of Bards wrote:
Most sports are competitive. This isn't the fault of gym teachers, it's just an anthropological part of why athletic activities evolved. Thing is, gym is required to be provided (in NJ) for the sake of the sedentary students.
Sedentary students are, generally speaking, the ones who won't be winning any of those competitions. They'll be at the bottom of the ladder every time. It's not a good feeling, and it makes you completely disconnect from the activities at hand. You end up doing everything you can to stay out of the actual action, for fear of having to prove how useless you are.
Sedentary students are, generally speaking, the ones who won't be winning any of those competitions. They'll be at the bottom of the ladder every time. It's not a good feeling, and it makes you completely disconnect from the activities at hand. You end up doing everything you can to stay out of the actual action, for fear of having to prove how useless you are.