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Before I moved to France I hated P.E. classes. But I think they did something right here. The year is divided into three sports that you do for three months eac

by yoz-y 8y ago

Before I moved to France I hated P.E. classes. But I think they did something right here. The year is divided into three sports that you do for three months each. There is always an individual sport (track, swimming) a team sport (rugby, handball) and a one on one (e.g.: badminton). Emphasis is on knowledge of oneself, for example for track you have to predict your time for 3x500m run and you get 1/3 of points this way. If you predict too low or high, you will lose on grade. This means that you actually have to get to know your limits. The only issue I had was for team sports where the individual differences are just way too high to construct a game interesting for everybody.

GuiA 8y ago
Yeah, I didn't particularly care for PE as a French kid growing up, but in hindsight I can play pretty much any common sport decently because of it. One unexpected side effect is that it makes socializing quite easy - I can accept when someone invites me to play tennis, volleyball, etc. because I have some basic grasp of the sport from school. In fact, when I moved to California, I saw that everyone was really into climbing, and started doing it too because I had done it in school, even though I had never been into it at the time.
dangerbird2 8y ago
I went to a private school in the US that had a similar setup. For each 3 month season, everyone was required to either join an interscholastic team or participate in an intramural sport with daily practice. Aside from certain high-popularity sports like basketball and lacrosse, pretty much everyone got to play whatever sport they wanted to. If you didn't like team sports you could join the running/weight lifting individual fitness group. The fact we had some agency in how we structured our excercise made athletics way more enjoyable minimized the bullying and unhelpful busywork inherrent in traditional P.E.

by yoz-y 8y ago

GuiA 8y ago

Yeah, I didn't particularly care for PE as a French kid growing up, but in hindsight I can play pretty much any common sport decently because of it. One unexpected side effect is that it makes socializing quite easy - I can accept when someone invites me to play tennis, volleyball, etc. because I have some basic grasp of the sport from school. In fact, when I moved to California, I saw that everyone was really into climbing, and started doing it too because I had done it in school, even though I had never been into it at the time.

dangerbird2 8y ago

I went to a private school in the US that had a similar setup. For each 3 month season, everyone was required to either join an interscholastic team or participate in an intramural sport with daily practice. Aside from certain high-popularity sports like basketball and lacrosse, pretty much everyone got to play whatever sport they wanted to. If you didn't like team sports you could join the running/weight lifting individual fitness group. The fact we had some agency in how we structured our excercise made athletics way more enjoyable minimized the bullying and unhelpful busywork inherrent in traditional P.E.