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Originally Posted by markprior22
P.E. is a real pet peeve of mine. For many kids, it is just a period of social awkwardness. Rather than forcing kids to play games that they hate and have no skills for, give them some choices and cut down on the 15 min to take attendance and 15 min to wrap up at the end. One choice should always be to let the kids walk
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Yeah, I'm all for encouraging kids to be active, when I think about how active I was as a kid versus what is the norm now, it's crazy. But PE was not a place, in the upper grades, where anyone was really very active. It was mostly standing around. You'd get the kids more exercise just taking them on a walking tour of town or something than having them stand on a volleyball court and pretend to play.