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I have bottomless rage at having been forced to spend about a thousand hours of my life in “physical education” classes that did not teach me how to stretch, train, or even lift a heavy box properly but did teach me to hate exercise https://twitter.com/cavalorn/status/1248925065812598785
Replies demonstrate persuasively that public school physical education has been actively harmful to people’s mental and physical health
https://twitter.com/miniver/status/1248968682132267011?s=21 https://twitter.com/miniver/status/1248968682132267011
https://twitter.com/miniver/status/1248968682132267011?s=21 https://twitter.com/miniver/status/1248968682132267011
I have been getting a lot of replies about the horrors people experienced in physical education classes — shame, bullying by classmates and teachers, frustration, misery, and injury — and this sums up the cultural politics of it:
https://twitter.com/lizthequeer/status/1249208640457883648?s=21 https://twitter.com/lizthequeer/status/1249208640457883648
https://twitter.com/lizthequeer/status/1249208640457883648?s=21 https://twitter.com/lizthequeer/status/1249208640457883648
I have been getting countless replies like this, describing how “physical education” normalized pointless cruelty at the hands of people given authority over us
https://twitter.com/yoongccino/status/1249296213863804930?s=21 https://twitter.com/yoongccino/status/1249296213863804930
https://twitter.com/yoongccino/status/1249296213863804930?s=21 https://twitter.com/yoongccino/status/1249296213863804930
And I have gotten countless replies like this about how cruelty from classmates in PE classes was not just a byproduct of the class as a forum, but implicitly (or even explicitly) encouraged by the adults responsible to the kids in their care
https://twitter.com/chandradawn1/status/1249326755065847808?s=21 https://twitter.com/chandradawn1/status/1249326755065847808
https://twitter.com/chandradawn1/status/1249326755065847808?s=21 https://twitter.com/chandradawn1/status/1249326755065847808
