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I have no idea what schools in India do with that information.
When I was growing up in the US we did this thing called “The President’s Physical Fitness Test”. That was a bunch of running pull up tests and they also did Height and Weight.
As far as what the school did with it, I have no idea. It may have went towards some grant applications or something.
When I was growing up Gym class ended in the 10th grade (THANK FUCK) after that I never heard about that test again.
I grew up in a fucked up house so all I never did organized sports or anything like that ,so naturally I failed the stupid test.
God I hated that so much. I think that's what made me hate exercise for most of my life. It wasn't til I got older and moved to a walkable city that I discovered the joy of recreational walking
Reactions like this show how bad many schools are when it comes to getting kids to exercise. They could make it fun but often don't. For us in our first year of 6th form they started doing it but because it wasn't legally required anymore by that age and people might just fuck off they put more effort into picking things that are fun. Had more fun there in 1 year than the previous 5 combined.
Games rather than competitive sports were far more fun.
Yeah the whole thing's fatally flawed. Didn't help Mr lose weight or run farther or anything, and I got sexually harassed in the locker room and no one did anything about it. It's just a traumatic memory
Being a traumatic memory is a feeling for many people, and it puts them off doing exercise of any sort even many years after leaving school.
the real crime is that they stopped doing the big parachute after like the second grade
Man, I'd forgotten about that. I do recall really enjoying that relative to other PE stuff.
https://www.weareteachers.com/parachute-games/
It is really easy to get kids to enjoy outdoor and gym play.
That was never my issues with gym.
The first minor issue was time. Classes where 50 minutes long. So 10 minutes for changing into gym clothes and changing back into school clothes, which is insanely fast, leaves what 30 minutes for the actual activity.
The real major issues were:
It was the hellscape that is adolescent males in the locker room.
Nothing like getting all sweaty and nasty when your body is already going crazy with secretions and odors. I really loved 9th grade. I would get up get cleaned and ready for school and first period was dumbfuck gym…. Now I get to spend the rest of the day smelling.
To me gym class should have aways been after school.
Not really, it sucked
This part's 100% true though. It should be the law that all students get the right to private changing areas upon request and if they can't be provided in sufficient quantity for timely changing relative to demand the student doesn't have to do gym that day with no penalty