Am I the only one who remembers this from grade school?
We were always pushed to try to get the presidential fitness award all throughout grade school.
My grade school was out in the sticks of the midwest only a few miles from an air force base so maybe they leaned more heavily on the prepping us for military service.
The pledge of allegiance was never missed a single day.
I also remember being 'selected' to raise the flag in the morning which was supposed to be some huge honor.
It was the biggest goddamned flag you could imagine and had a very particular way to fold/unfold lest you let it touch the ground. And if you did let it touch the ground they had to burn it and it would cost the school a ton of money and you'd be in deep shit. I didn't unfold it right so when the other kid tried to raise it, it dragged on the ground first.
We both panicked and hurriedly raised it praying that no one saw it. We never got in trouble and the flag wasn't burned but I spent a whole year just waiting for the axe to drop.
Oh nah, I vividly remember that stupid ass fitness program. I think at the time, I was living no more than 50mi from the Pentagon, so it very well may have been something that was emphasized and underlined more and more the closer one got to an installation.
I was born and raised in a hick town, so I totally second that this is what PE is like. Despite all the emphasis on our football team, "gym" "class" was a complete insult to even the concept of exercise. You spend 20 minutes just very slowly explaining the rules of fucking kickball as if we just heard about it for the first time IN HIGH SCHOOL, and the rest of the time was a boring nothingburger of a 'class' because no one (me included) took it seriously. On the bright side, there wasn't much of a jocks vs nerds thing at my school because I could always just make my physical shortcoming look like I'm just not taking it seriously like everyone else. You could just flip the script on any bully by pointing out "Wow, you care about things to the extent that someone else's imperfection offends you? Loser!"
Please Mao, come back and rewrite the script for gym class to make it actually practical.
It seems to be a recurring theme where they turn their infantile whining about petty personal grievances into a righteous crusade against “authoritarianism”.
Japanese had their kids do radio calisthenics in school while they were younger (do they still do it?), you don't see these dumbasses calling them evil commies putting on shows
shoutout to the foundational PMC anti-communist radlib textbook 1984 which also thinks exercise is evil and scary, I wonder why the class of indoor gamerchair "workers" would have this belief?
you will play dodgeball and like it. none of that pussy ass yoga bullshit. we're dropping bombs baby. now whip that ball at sally in the face as hard as you can. shut the fuck up sally.
I can smell the body shape of the person who posted this. Imagine being so damn "redditor" that the very concept of exercising with others is seen as pure evil.