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Literally no one cares if I'm improving or not. Gym teachers pushed me away from exercising for years and it's taken therapy and unlearning to get rid of my fe

Literally no one cares if I'm improving or not. Gym teachers pushed me away from exercising for years and it's taken therapy and unlearning to get rid of my fear with working out. YOU DON'T NEED TO MEASURE HOW GOOD I RUN. This toxic view point that everything should be a competition and grading needs to die the fuck out. Gym is supposed to be a fun place for students to move their bodies and interact with their peers in a different capacity. People who want to go do this more professionally should have the opportunity and the right gym teachers to encourage them there. But grading me because I didn't run a certain distance in a certain time is absurd and damaging and emotionally humiliating. Shit that I wouldn't want to subject an adult to, let alone a kid.

ALittleLight 5y ago
You should care if you are improving. Your talents and abilities are the ones being improved. In general, especially outside of school, I think you're right that people don't really care if you're improving. Imagine being a professional essayist writing bad essays - you wouldn't build a readership on the strength of "Well last year I was way worse!" You build a readership, in part, by writing well - not relative to how you used to write, but writing well enough that people want to read. Most things are like this. People generally want quality, they want their doctor to be good, not just better than he was last year. I'd rather have a good doctor who had decayed from great than a bad doctor who had improved from terrible. You want your employees or the people you interact with to be objectively good. Pretending like objective measurements don't matter is an approach for school that is at odds with life.