You literally said nothing.

I was bullied in music class because we had to do singing solos in front of the entire class. As you can imagine this was extremely humiliating to anyone without golden vocal cords especially having people snicker and laugh when you sang off key or forgot a word.

Try this:

Our gym class in high school was graded for actual ability which broke my heart for the kids who were just not athletic/uncoordinated no matter what having to do a lay-up or push-ups. 

Lots of bullies don’t escalate to violence — they know they won’t get in trouble if they don’t hit you. Also many schools now have a policy of punishing both kids because “we don’t know who started it” even if you know who started it.

I HATED gym. HATED IT. I wasn’t athletic. Games involving a ball usually ended in my getting hit in the face with the ball. And I developed big boobs early, so running was a nightmare, plus the boys loved to leer and holler for reasons I hadn’t conceived of yet (why do they keep calling me, “California Mama?”). Once I…

My high school gym class just dragged down my GPA. I showed up, got dressed and participated every time. We got minimal instruction on how to play anything (I still don’t understand football or basketball) and yet half our grade was a surprise exam on the rules of various sports we played during the semester. The gym…

Find stuff that the kids like doing, then do that. Don’t just try and force every kid into the same hole. And decide what gym is for, is it to keep kids healthy or is it for school competitions. If it is the latter then release the kids who are not naturally competitive because they will be miserable and then get…

What I don’t understand is, the focus on team sports. I get that teams are probably easier to manage for the gym teachers, but they suck when it comes to individual health and exercise. Half the time is on the bench. Or cowering from the dodgeball. Or being humiliated when the teams are picked.

The real problem with P.E. is that it isn’t EDUCATION. All it is is running around tossing different projectiles at your classmates! Maybe if they would use the time to actually educate the students on what to do in a healthy exercise routine and then have them do it once or twice a week (or however often that P.E. is…

Based on the comments, it seems like lots if people had “gym sucks” experiences. Yet, my daughter goes to a high school where they seem to be doing it right. The PE teachers actually want gym to be a positive and enjoyable experience for everyone, not just the jocks, and they provide multiple activities for the kids…

These days it’s ‘I don’t care if they hit you first you hit them back now you are equally in trouble and we won’t investigate further than that to find out if the kid is a bully or not! Then we might have to like... fucking do our jobs or something stupid.’

PE was torture. The female sports teacher was biased to tall athletic girls and ignored the rest of us but screamed at us for being inadequate. The only time I ever enjoyed PE was final year when they gave up teaching us and instead gave us an option at the start of each class of which sport we wanted to do and we’d…

I remember being in grade 9 gym class and our male teacher would keep letting the athletic boys choose the teams for activities. They would pick every boy and then afterwards loudly shout stuff like, “okay whose tits are going to bounce the most today!?” while they laughed and picked the girls. I’ll never forget us…

So things haven’t changed. I hated gym starting with 6th grade when it became a yearly event to pick on the kid who needed the really strong glasses. At least until was demonstrated for that year that he had no problem hammering the bullies faces into lockers and walls without his glasses.

In elementary school, PE was an inconvenience. From middle school on, it was where I had to rub elbows with the sort of people I was able to avoid by being in honors classes. I’m not talking about most of the kids in the regular-level classes. I’m no snob. I’m talking the real dead-heads. The ones who thought school…

PE was the worst. In very young grades it was fun and we played fun games and tried new sports. For some reason we play something called Net ball, since basketball was deemed too difficult until we were in grade 6 (serious).

Also, as a mom of a micro preemie (just one week older than the cutoff for viability): no one brings a preemie into the world of it can be helped. It happens out of necessity and it is not in any way an abortion. 

Someone on my Facebook feed said the same thing. “Look what can happen to babies now!!!! HORRIBLE!” Cue me going “nobody is at week 37 and going, ‘you know what, I don’t want this anymore,’” and calling up a provider and demanding an abortion.

Making self-managed abortions legal and easy to obtain would be a huge step forward.