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Originally posted by dissention
I don't know what your PE classes were like, but all of the classes I was in weren't like that. No one wanted to change in the bathrooms because they were embarrassed, everoyne smelled of body odor because they were going through puberty (which resulted in our teacher actually handing out nose plugs at one time!!!!!!), the plus sized children cried throughout the whole class, no one wanted to do anything in front of the other kids; the whole class was torture for everyone involved. 
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Well there's that
Seriously, I know gym class is hard for some. It was for me a little bit because although my prose and particularly my political arguments are eloquent
, my movements are far from graceful and lithe, esp. then
But, I think that is why the teacher matters so much. I mean I have seen people embarrassed to the point of tears in Math
To me - high school should be all about teaching as many different thigs as possible and studies do show that socialization is taught in PE. I do agree however, that if the schools cannot teach the basics and teach PE - then PE should go