I can relate to Dean on this one. Back in high school I was given a D my first semester in gym class. When I asked the coach why, his reply was that he “didn’t see me kicking butt in football”. I was a kid with not one milligram of extra fat, loved to hike, bicycled everywhere, and had taken up running. Nonetheless, the “coach” was giving me the same grade as if I were some overweight couch potato on the grounds that I wasn’t “kicking butt” in football.
That taught me a lot about “phys-ed”. It had nothing to do with keeping kids fit and healthy.
I can relate to Dean on this one. Back in high school I was given a D my first semester in gym class. When I asked the coach why, his reply was that he “didn’t see me kicking butt in football”. I was a kid with not one milligram of extra fat, loved to hike, bicycled everywhere, and had taken up running. Nonetheless, the “coach” was giving me the same grade as if I were some overweight couch potato on the grounds that I wasn’t “kicking butt” in football.
That taught me a lot about “phys-ed”. It had nothing to do with keeping kids fit and healthy.