Physical Education

Most of us are in school to learn, not to do physically exhausting exercises but we're required to anyways. The school board of education has good intentions of keeping America healthy but really if someone wanted to stay fit they would also excercise outside of school. Some kids won't even consider excercising once high school's oficially over with, it shouldn't even be a required class just to make sure you'll have a graduation.

Sure gym class may keep the kid healthy for a temporary amount of time but a lot of people would just go back sitting on the couch and eating potato chips rather than go running about outside when they know they can sit at home and relax. Though P.E. teaches kids nothing acadmeically the suppose point of having it required in schools is to teach kids of team work, drive, and determination.

In all of my P.E classes whenever we had to work in groups the whole point of team work was never really achieved. Within a group there's always at least two people that never got a long, the kids that are too aggressive, and the people that did not participate because they didn't care, mix these all together and nothing really gets done. That's great team work, obviously.

It's a given there will always be five or so kids in each class that has to have to satisfaction of winning but for a lot of the kids they don't recieve anything back. That's where teenagers just stop caring about trying in the class, they don't benefit anything from it. I can understand that though. Why would anyone be determined to run ten laps and just be extremely tired at the end? Unless there is a $100 prize given out I doubt many kids will be driven to do so.

Basically in P.E. all you have to do is attend class, dress up, and put little effort into the activites to get an A.