Cross-country running is abuse

[Joeokar]

That's nothing. When I were a lad we had to run from the Isle of Wight to the Orkneys, naked, while our teaches flayed the skin from our backs with cat-o'-nines.

Cant stop laughing at this

[Blodrast]

While I agree that PE shouldn't be the same for everybody (I also had/have (?) asthma), my feeling is too that the today's general trend is towards excessive PC (as in all fields), which simply leads to pampering of the kids.

"Ooooh, you can't make my kid run!" "Ooooh, my kid can't make 25 push-ups, this is inhuman!" "Oooooh, I don't want my kid to come up last in <insert physical test here>, it will ruin his self-esteem and ...."

blech.
Where the hell DOES all this PC come from ??

[Kanamori]

Running for me has always just been concentrated spacing out, then again I am ADHD. You're tired and hot? I'm thinking about the best way to fix my airsoft gun and I'm not even paying attention to where I am. An hour in, and my body's flooding endorphins into me. Win-win economics.

[drone]

Well at this rate, 15 years from now Social Services will be able to take away your kid if you make him stop playing video games and go clean his room. There are things in life that you might not want to do, but you have to do it anyway. What better stage in life to teach that lesson? Reading centuries-old English literature was painful sometimes, and I would consider it abusive, are they going to stop teaching that?

I guess the whole "Just do it, it builds character" isn't a good enough reason these days, and we will just have to live with a generation with no character.