Not only did Sommers evade the question every time Jon tried to pin her down on her anecdotal evidence, she was either deliberately misleading or just ignorant about why sane PE teachers have gotten rid of dodgeball. It's not just that being eliminated might be humiliating, or even just that the whole game is hitting people with things as an organized sport, but that the students who are least skilled get hit right away, sit on the bench for the rest of the game, and therefore get no practice or exercise. It's about taking physical education seriously as actual education, which my high school certainly didn't.
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Date: 2005-04-29 11:39 am (UTC)