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My oldest daughter gets great grades in all her classes...except PE. She just wants to be an ass and tries as little as possible. At one point she was down to an F last year. I told her that was just ridiculous and that she needed to start trying harder. She pouted but did it.

PE teachers can suck. They have their favorites, and, for me, many of the grades were subjective, not based on anything other than what the teacher felt. Meh. I liked doing stuff, but teachers can be fuckers some times.
 
My issue with PE was that I'm shit at sport but the PE teachers at my school didn't have any way of dealing with a class that contained the people who were good at sport and the people who didn't want to be there. I appreciate the need for promoting exercise in school but PE was very badly organized on my school and there was no effort to make it a worthwhile and fun experience for everybody.
 
What grinds my gears the most is the debating though, more than any mark. I'm not a person who's able (sure I would if I really wanted and trained) to lie about their vision of things when dozens of people are watching them. Why the fuck would I do that? The debaters in my class brought the idea to our class and think that EVERYONE should do it. A fetish, that's what it is. I know that it's very educating and can give you important basics in life but it should be purely optional, well at least for the WHOLE class, not 4 people who have never tried the darn thing.
 
I was never fond of PE myself. Elementary school PE was fun but that's about it. I think it mostly had to do with me not really having my friends in PE with me. I was with the popular kids that I didn't like and were all good at sports.
 
Saapanael said:
I know that it's very educating and can give you important basics in life
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There you go.

Saap, mate, life is full of things you don't want to do, yet have to. School is particularly full of these things. Click back a few pages and you'll find me talking about mandatory university courses I had to take and didn't feel like doing at all. And I swear, there were two semesters when I took more classes on self marketing and diversity management than on Iranian history, which is what I started going to university for.

The way I see it, there's three ways you can deal with this. You can sit down and bitch, and hope people will give you marks for sticking to your ideals. Unless you have my old social sciences teacher, that's not going to happen. You can decide to put up with it and do what is required. That's what I did in maths. To this day, I am proud of the fact that I passed my final exam in maths with the very precise amount of points I needed, not one iota more. The downside is, I'm still at odds with maths, and there is a lot of cool stuff I can't learn about because of it.

Or, you can decide to own shit. The cool kids in your class want everyone to debate? Start a debate about that. Beat them with their own weapons. I was shit in PE, but at one point I grew tired of getting marks for trying, so I found things I was good at and stuck to them. I was the best goalie in my class, and at one point, I had some of my classmates teach me how to score in basketball. I wasn't particularly good at basketball in general, but when I did get the ball, it never missed the hoop. When I did all those business classes in university, I decided to play by my own rules. I remember one occasion when we were supposed to do a mock application speech, and I spoke of my vision of expanding Massacre Records to the Iranian market. People looked at me like I was the king of freaks, but fact was that by doing it my way, I gave the best presentation in that class.

So what I'm trying to say is: Stop whining and start being awesome.
 
Start being awesome! I like that! I've just stolen it from you.

I have a headache. but I'm going to start being awesome.
 
PE - that lesson where all the kids who didn't bring their sports kit were left in the changing rooms alone to rifle through everyone else's belongings and nick stuff!

Seriously, it's worth asking what the teacher expects from the class. They probably accept not everyone is a top class athlete, but look for effort, skills you acquire, use of tactics in games, ability to work as a team, and so forth. I had a seriously tough PE teacher once, but God, she was fair - she wanted to see everyone find something they were good at in some way, or at the very least persevered with against all odds. As soon as they did that, she handed out a good report.
 
I know exactly what you're saying, Perun, but:
1) Maths, for example, is a mandatory lesson everyone has to take, it's normal, but the debaters being obtrude on the rest of us is wrong, don't you think? I'm not sure if you agree but some specific things are more unacceptable than others, this being the case here.
2) Same as Maths goes for PE. I'm not trying to stick to certain ideals, I want the grading to be fair (maybe that is sticking to ideals?) People who do less shouldn't get away more rewarded, but that's something life does, of course.

So everything comes down to equal judgement. But I don't want to start debating over these problems now...:D
 
Saap, some things are more unfair than others. But here is a very important lesson in life: it is not worth getting worked up about things you can't change. Make the best of them, and try to own them.
 
Hows that go? "....give me the strength to know what I can change and what I can't and the ability to deal with both..."?
 
And they'll tell you black is really white
The moon is just the sun at night
And when you walk in golden halls
You get to keep the gold that falls - it's heaven and hell!
 
While I agree with the things Per said in general, I would argue that whining and bitching can be very useful. Yes, life's unfair but unless you are high 24/7 (and I know Saap is high just for a couple of hours a day), you can't and you shouldn't always grin and bear it. Passive aggression can be devastating and whining can have a great cleansing and cathartic effect. But once you're done with it, you should move on.
 
Ariana said:
While I agree with the things Per said in general, I would argue that whining and bitching can be very useful. Yes, life's unfair but unless you are high 24/7 (and I know Saap is high just for a couple of hours a day), you can't and you shouldn't always grin and bear it. Passive aggression can be devastating and whining can have a great cleansing and cathartic effect. But once you're done with it, you should move on.
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Yes, venting your frustration is something very important. The way I like to do it the best is to have a beer with my mates, talk about my troubles and then bang my head. I can't always do that, and all of you have witnessed me whining here as well.

So yeah, I know it doesn't always work that way. I don't expect you to start owning your school tomorrow, Saap. I'm only giving you an ideal you should go after. And being a bit cocky so you have a reason to defy me.

LooseCannon said:
It just hit that part on the song when I opened the post. Perfect timing.
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That's because we're awesome, the song is awesome, and that particular part is so awesome I cited it in my BA thesis.
 
Ariana said:
While I agree with the things Per said in general, I would argue that whining and bitching can be very useful. Yes, life's unfair but unless you are high 24/7 (and I know Saap is high just for a couple of hours a day), you can't and you shouldn't always grin and bear it. Passive aggression can be devastating and whining can have a great cleansing and cathartic effect. But once you're done with it, you should move on.
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This post is great.
 
Embrace and express yourself, Saap. Be realistic but see the glass half full. That's what I've learnt in the past few years and guess what, life is going very well for me these days. There's a reason why you don't see me whine and bitch with long posts here anymore. :p
 
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