So, I lived in India as a foreigner over 12 years ago now and, back in both 4th and 5th grade, our class teachers would record our weights and heights(I don’t remember if this one a year or for every term) and would later be written in our report card for our parents
As fat kid, having to step on the scale in front of the whole class was humiliating and its not like they did anything with those numbers. They didn’t mention them to parents, didn’t make life style changes recommendations. The least they could have done was take those measurements in private and not in front of the whole class
Is this still a practice Today in India school? Was it popular during the 2010(I lived there from 2012-2014)? For people who had their measurements taken, especially other fat kids, how did it feel?
What about other parts of the world?
Reactions like this show how bad many schools are when it comes to getting kids to exercise. They could make it fun but often don’t. For us in our first year of 6th form they started doing it but because it wasn’t legally required anymore by that age and people might just fuck off they put more effort into picking things that are fun. Had more fun there in 1 year than the previous 5 combined.
Games rather than competitive sports were far more fun.
Yeah the whole thing’s fatally flawed. Didn’t help Mr lose weight or run farther or anything, and I got sexually harassed in the locker room and no one did anything about it. It’s just a traumatic memory
the real crime is that they stopped doing the big parachute after like the second grade
Man, I’d forgotten about that. I do recall really enjoying that relative to other PE stuff.
https://www.weareteachers.com/parachute-games/
It is really easy to get kids to enjoy outdoor and gym play.
That was never my issues with gym.
The first minor issue was time. Classes where 50 minutes long. So 10 minutes for changing into gym clothes and changing back into school clothes, which is insanely fast, leaves what 30 minutes for the actual activity.
The real major issues were:
It was the hellscape that is adolescent males in the locker room.
Nothing like getting all sweaty and nasty when your body is already going crazy with secretions and odors. I really loved 9th grade. I would get up get cleaned and ready for school and first period was dumbfuck gym…. Now I get to spend the rest of the day smelling.
To me gym class should have aways been after school.
Not really, it sucked
This part’s 100% true though. It should be the law that all students get the right to private changing areas upon request and if they can’t be provided in sufficient quantity for timely changing relative to demand the student doesn’t have to do gym that day with no penalty