Hall Of Shame In Physical Education

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I am with you about having flashbacks about past physical education experiences. I am realizing that a lot of my experiences in gym were all the things that should not have been done in a physical education classroom. I swear that the majority of the activities we participated in were listed and/or labeled inappropriate or Hall of Shame worthy. I am sad to say that out of 13 Hall of Shame worthy games we played 9 of them religiously at our school. I even saw some that I didn’t realize were inappropriate, but once I read the reasons of shame I had that WOW moment. Everything I experienced in gym met at least one criteria of shame classification referenced in the article The Physical Hall of Shame. I often wondered when I was in gym about

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