Men's Group

I was slightly apprehensive about the possibility of being personally attacked by a sports fan for daring to be critical of mandatory boys' P.E.

I know I've said this elsewhere in this forum (if I remember correctly) and in the forums of other websites, but I'll say it again: I get more exercise in a single workout session at my health club than I ever did in an entire year of P.E. The only time I ever worked up a sweat in any of my P.E. classes was when I was worried about being humiliated or bullied. If any academic class had been conducted in the way the mandatory P.E. of my generation was "taught," there would have been a lot of outrage. But no one cared that nonathletic students were being neglected and humiliated. No one cared about the bullying, which was tolerated for generations. They only cared about sports. The history of mandatory boys' P.E. in the United States is an absolute disgrace.