Gym Class - Coed or segregated?

[minionofmidas]

75% of us are unimaginable, 25% are normal.

Sounds about right. This is the Atlas Forum after all.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Coed, although Herr Steinbrück thinks this should change because some in the Muslim community feel offended.

I feel that denazification may have been too effective at times.

[Tender Branson]

Something else now:

I've often read "coed" on porn sites. What does it mean ? Probably not "co-education" ...

[dead0man]

We got to pick "subjects" in PE every other quarter.  Like bowling, tennis, softball, walking (I swear),etc.  Those were co-ed.  The opposite quarters were segregated.  As all forced athletic competition should be.  Most girls don't care about winning a soccer game in High School PE class so they just stand around and get in the way and panic if the ball comes near them.  Sure, some boys don't care either, but most did.

Something else now:

I've often read "coed" on porn sites. What does it mean ? Probably not "co-education" ...

It means college aged but sounds slightly higher class and less skeevy than "barely 18".

[minionofmidas]

It does derive from co-education. The word co-ed for a female (school or college) student dates from a time a century ago when not all schools were coeducative and fewer females than males aquired much formal schooling.

We got to pick "subjects" in PE every other quarter.

Only in the last three years over here - and yeary, not quarterly. (One of these years was two subjects, though. So through this time I swam, played football, table tennis and handball. Only the first and last of these were good choices on my part.)

[Hash]

Most girls don't care about winning a soccer game in High School PE class so they just stand around and get in the way and panic if the ball comes near them.

That's why I found coed gym classes even remotely tolerable. I wasn't alone in not giving a sh**t and panicking when the ball came to me.

I recall, in Grade 8 I think, that some of the 'jock'-type boys in my PE class threw a fit when the teacher revealed that I had a higher mark than they did in PE despite being horrible at everything. She justified it by saying that I did good in the health class portion and that I never forgot my PE clothes.

[Vosem]

I'm in a gym class right now which has a rather large -- mid-60%s -- female majority, so...I don't know which gender is more apathetic on average. I am part of the small minority who actually cares -- not for any academic advantage but because I have no idea how I'd be able to tolerate a full semester of gym class otherwise.

It's also kind of hilarious because, due to sheer coincidence, a large number of the girls in the class are quite athletic, while basically none of the guys are. It's a fun class.

[afleitch]

Segregated. Boys in rugby, girls in hockey.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

My high school gym had 5 or 6 PE teachers in total -- two female, the rest male. The female teachers would monitor the girls' locker room; the male teachers had offices in the boys' locker room. Once we were out of the locker room, though, it was entirely coed. Some of my best memories of gym class involved being teamed up with my friend Molly for badminton.

I used to hate gym class so much. Now I voluntarily spend two gym classes' worth of time at the gym every time I go. I blame gym teachers, generally, for taking something that should be inherently fun and making it feel insufferable.

[7,052,770]

Don't know.  I think we had a gym class, but I don't know anyone who ever took it.  Probably co-ed.

[Ban my account ffs!]

Gym was always co-ed... the middle and high school had separate locker rooms/showers for boys and girls.  We never did any high-contact sports in Gym so having girls and boys together wasn't bad.  Even playing football, girls still played decently enough that it was still fun.

The best part of elementary gym class was the parachute... when you got to play "sharks"... basically everybody sits around the edge of the giant parachute and shakes it while one kid gets to crawl around under the parachute and pull people under.

The absolute worst was aerobics.  We'd just watch stupid videos of chicks in one piece early 90s gear (you know.. big hair and bangs, a spandex one piece with leggings and bulky tennis shoes).

High school I remember having to do team exercises like getting everybody through a ring hanging from the ceiling.. but everybody starts on one side and can't cross the line to help guide the person through the ring.  And swing dancing... we learned swing dancing.

In Middle school i went to a small Christian school... we had a mile run once a week when it wasn't snowy outside... but we also played capture the flag a lot which was a lot of fun.  Oh, and 2 or 3 ski days per year was pretty sweet as well.  Compared to only 1 in the public school.

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

Segregated. I managed to pull an A in that class despite doing almost literally nothing. I actually had to write a 3-page paper on volleyball once because my parents feared for my eyes.

[Dr. Cynic]

It was co-ed. Gym was never organized into an actual class activity because they always put three classes together at once and you sort of intermingled and did whatever you wanted.

[muon2]

From 7th - 11th grades gym and the quarter of health class was segregated. In 12th grade there were electives, some of which were coed. But that was due to other parallel changes as I'll illustrate below.

Shop and home economics were not only segregated but restricted so that boys couldn't take home ec classes like cooking and girls couldn't take shop. While I was in those grades the school initially provided one unit where each gender could get a sample of the other gender's offerings, but in a segregated class. By 9th grade they allowed both genders to register for shop/home ec electives, but gave preference to the "preferred" gender, so for instance a boy who registered for cooking could only get in if there were spots open after the girls had registered (which happened to me). Finally by the 12th grade they had provided gender-neutral access to all classes.

This was in liberal MN and the changes were all due to Title IX, which was passed after my 9th grade.

[opebo]

75% of us are unimaginable, 25% are normal.

Sounds about right. This is the Atlas Forum after all.

At first I was shocked, but now this thread makes me feel good - I realize that my own life is a kind of heirloom of nostalgia, without actually being an elderly yet.

[minionofmidas]

75% of us are unimaginable, 25% are normal.

Sounds about right. This is the Atlas Forum after all.

At first I was shocked, but now this thread makes me feel good - I realize that my own life is a kind of heirloom of nostalgia

They all become like that in the end.

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Ah, that's where you're mistaken, grampa.

[MasterJedi]

Most girls don't care about winning a soccer game in High School PE class so they just stand around and get in the way and panic if the ball comes near them.

That's why I found coed gym classes even remotely tolerable. I wasn't alone in not giving a sh**t and panicking when the ball came to me.

I recall, in Grade 8 I think, that some of the 'jock'-type boys in my PE class threw a fit when the teacher revealed that I had a higher mark than they did in PE despite being horrible at everything. She justified it by saying that I did good in the health class portion and that I never forgot my PE clothes.

Not caring is one thing, but being scared of a ball? Yeah, you didn't deserve anything about a C at most and you deserved everything you got from those guys in class.

[opebo]

Not caring is one thing, but being scared of a ball? Yeah, you didn't deserve anything about a C at most and you deserved everything you got from those guys in class.

What the heck are you, some kind of jock?  Try to understand - just as your sort fear higher academic matters, their sort is afraid the ball will hit them in the eye.

(in point of fact I actually had a friend in college who wore an eye-patch because his eye had been destroyed by a soccer-ball hitting it when he was a young jock in high school.  The poor bastard feared to drive his own car at night, so I would drive him around, terrorizing him to my great amusement by doing things like accelerating on curves and driving close to the edge of the road).

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Most girls don't care about winning a soccer game in High School PE class so they just stand around and get in the way and panic if the ball comes near them.

That's why I found coed gym classes even remotely tolerable. I wasn't alone in not giving a sh**t and panicking when the ball came to me.

I recall, in Grade 8 I think, that some of the 'jock'-type boys in my PE class threw a fit when the teacher revealed that I had a higher mark than they did in PE despite being horrible at everything. She justified it by saying that I did good in the health class portion and that I never forgot my PE clothes.

Not caring is one thing, but being scared of a ball? Yeah, you didn't deserve anything about a C at most and you deserved everything you got from those guys in class.

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[Hash]

Most girls don't care about winning a soccer game in High School PE class so they just stand around and get in the way and panic if the ball comes near them.

That's why I found coed gym classes even remotely tolerable. I wasn't alone in not giving a sh**t and panicking when the ball came to me.

I recall, in Grade 8 I think, that some of the 'jock'-type boys in my PE class threw a fit when the teacher revealed that I had a higher mark than they did in PE despite being horrible at everything. She justified it by saying that I did good in the health class portion and that I never forgot my PE clothes.

Not caring is one thing, but being scared of a ball? Yeah, you didn't deserve anything about a C at most and you deserved everything you got from those guys in class.

I wasn't "scared of the ball" dom doos, I just didn't take the game very seriously and since we weren't paying attention we didn't have time to react adequately when the ball and the associated pack of five jocks came rushing down with it. It didn't help that I sucked horribly at physed even when I tried (which I actually did, at times - almost qualified for the track team once).

Oh, nice justification of bullying and intimidation; though coming from your type, it's really nothing surprising.

[MasterJedi]

Most girls don't care about winning a soccer game in High School PE class so they just stand around and get in the way and panic if the ball comes near them.

That's why I found coed gym classes even remotely tolerable. I wasn't alone in not giving a sh**t and panicking when the ball came to me.

I recall, in Grade 8 I think, that some of the 'jock'-type boys in my PE class threw a fit when the teacher revealed that I had a higher mark than they did in PE despite being horrible at everything. She justified it by saying that I did good in the health class portion and that I never forgot my PE clothes.

Not caring is one thing, but being scared of a ball? Yeah, you didn't deserve anything about a C at most and you deserved everything you got from those guys in class.

I wasn't "scared of the ball" dom doos, I just didn't take the game very seriously and since we weren't paying attention we didn't have time to react adequately when the ball and the associated pack of five jocks came rushing down with it. It didn't help that I sucked horribly at physed even when I tried (which I actually did, at times - almost qualified for the track team once).

Oh, nice justification of bullying and intimidation; though coming from your type, it's really nothing surprising.

Arrogant, slightly smarter then average people who have no life experience deserve everything they get. That's your "type" kiddo.

[Hash]

Most girls don't care about winning a soccer game in High School PE class so they just stand around and get in the way and panic if the ball comes near them.

That's why I found coed gym classes even remotely tolerable. I wasn't alone in not giving a sh**t and panicking when the ball came to me.

I recall, in Grade 8 I think, that some of the 'jock'-type boys in my PE class threw a fit when the teacher revealed that I had a higher mark than they did in PE despite being horrible at everything. She justified it by saying that I did good in the health class portion and that I never forgot my PE clothes.

Not caring is one thing, but being scared of a ball? Yeah, you didn't deserve anything about a C at most and you deserved everything you got from those guys in class.

I wasn't "scared of the ball" dom doos, I just didn't take the game very seriously and since we weren't paying attention we didn't have time to react adequately when the ball and the associated pack of five jocks came rushing down with it. It didn't help that I sucked horribly at physed even when I tried (which I actually did, at times - almost qualified for the track team once).

Oh, nice justification of bullying and intimidation; though coming from your type, it's really nothing surprising.

Arrogant, slightly smarter then average people who have no life experience deserve everything they get. That's your "type" kiddo.

Better smart than a dumb jock or sad high school bully.

[patrick1]

Most girls don't care about winning a soccer game in High School PE class so they just stand around and get in the way and panic if the ball comes near them.

That's why I found coed gym classes even remotely tolerable. I wasn't alone in not giving a sh**t and panicking when the ball came to me.

I recall, in Grade 8 I think, that some of the 'jock'-type boys in my PE class threw a fit when the teacher revealed that I had a higher mark than they did in PE despite being horrible at everything. She justified it by saying that I did good in the health class portion and that I never forgot my PE clothes.

Not caring is one thing, but being scared of a ball? Yeah, you didn't deserve anything about a C at most and you deserved everything you got from those guys in class.

I wasn't "scared of the ball" dom doos, I just didn't take the game very seriously and since we weren't paying attention we didn't have time to react adequately when the ball and the associated pack of five jocks came rushing down with it. It didn't help that I sucked horribly at physed even when I tried (which I actually did, at times - almost qualified for the track team once).

Oh, nice justification of bullying and intimidation; though coming from your type, it's really nothing surprising.

Arrogant, slightly smarter then average people who have no life experience deserve everything they get. That's your "type" kiddo.

Better smart than a dumb jock or sad high school bully.

Let's just agree that people who feel the need to intimidate or lord their supposed superior athletic or intellectual prowess over others both deserve blame.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

He always has been one of our more openly repulsive posters, hasn't he?

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Most girls don't care about winning a soccer game in High School PE class so they just stand around and get in the way and panic if the ball comes near them.

That's why I found coed gym classes even remotely tolerable. I wasn't alone in not giving a sh**t and panicking when the ball came to me.

I recall, in Grade 8 I think, that some of the 'jock'-type boys in my PE class threw a fit when the teacher revealed that I had a higher mark than they did in PE despite being horrible at everything. She justified it by saying that I did good in the health class portion and that I never forgot my PE clothes.

I'm the same way, I usually kick the ball away to someone else to get the glory. Of course, we do kickball most of the time, not soccer, so I have to go to bat eventually.