supprazz
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Post by supprazz on Jan 15, 2014 12:59:57 GMT -5
I did that in 9th grade! I skipped gym in the week we had access to the swimming pool and kept going out for coffee. After that, I came to my gym teacher and blamed it on Ramadaan saying I didn't want to show my legs but felt I wouldn't be understood, and she bought it!
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mallorypike
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If I were thirteen instead of eleven, life would be a picnic...
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Post by mallorypike on Jan 15, 2014 16:26:39 GMT -5
Supprazz, I can't believe your gym teacher actually bought that! My gym teacher in ninth grade would never ever buy excuses no matter how believable it was.
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supprazz
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Post by supprazz on Jan 16, 2014 8:27:48 GMT -5
Truthfully, she probably thought I would accuse her of discrimination if she didn't let it go, and I was always in class even if I was awful at gym anyway.
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Post by Sideshowjazz1 on Jun 2, 2014 23:51:25 GMT -5
When I was Mallory's age, I was just like her. I always hated Gym (and the teachers usually didn't like me). As for boys...meh. Some of them were okay, but the ones that weren't just targeted me for no reason, and that went on until I was about fifteen, and it peaked when I was twelve or thirteen. Throwing walnut shells at me was one thing, but hiding all my stuff, messing up my desk, purposely making me late for everything? NOT COOL. Mal is really relatable for girls her age.
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Post by Sideshowjazz1 on Jun 24, 2014 20:56:11 GMT -5
I'm not sure if I would be considered athletic but I have ridden horses all of my life and love walking. Mallory did horse riding in one book, didn't she? On to my opinion. Being useless at sports myself and having done co-ed PE when I was eleven and twelve, I sympathized with Mallory entirely. Oh yeah, and I hated volleyball anyway - I don't want to get hit in the head. But boys at Mal's age are honestly just as bad as this book made them out to be - maybe worse. They leave most girls alone, but somehow me having trouble with sports makes me the weakest link? I don't understand why preteen and teenage boys feel the need to kick the dog when it's already down. The girls are usually more supportive - but I'd rather be benched. Once we started single-sex classes, the girls got really bitchy, worse than the super-competitive girls in this book. PE teachers were usually a little better at my school, meaning they weren't mean to the weak, but one term in class did induce tears once a week from me. That can't mean much good.
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Natasha
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BSC Reread Update: no 115:Jessi's big break.
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Post by Natasha on Oct 9, 2014 18:49:49 GMT -5
Loved this one because I could identify with it! I hated PE (in Australia we called it PE) but in the end it turns out I was good at swimming. Just like Mal found out she was good at archery (and it helps that my mum was a swimming coach when I in high school). This has to be my favourite in my reread by far.
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starrynight
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Post by starrynight on Oct 22, 2014 0:14:10 GMT -5
^ We called it PE in my schools, too (I'm from Seattle). No one would think it was weird to call it gym class, though.
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oldhickory
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Post by oldhickory on Oct 23, 2014 12:12:24 GMT -5
My manager's husband is a PE teacher and he takes offense when people call it gym. He says he is an educator, not a trainer. (I got lectured a little bit, but in good fun.) But I have always called it gym because it's easier to say than PE.
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scrounge
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Post by scrounge on Oct 24, 2014 0:18:25 GMT -5
We always used to call it PE when I was a kid (I had this weird fantasy about spraypainting "P.E. is P.U." onto the walls of the lunchroom...I was a total Mallory) but my niece (7) was here this week and I said something about PE to her and added "or gym class, if you guys call it gym class" and she informed me (with much eye rolling) that you CAN call it gym class but it's SUPPOSED to be called Physical Education.
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Post by greer on Oct 24, 2014 4:49:11 GMT -5
I think we called it both interchangeably in elementary school. Then in middle school it was called "checkout" for some reason.
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Post by sparklymouse on Oct 24, 2014 10:35:33 GMT -5
We always called it gym class. I just thought it was like how people call shoes sneakers or tennis shoes. (Although googling that, there is a technical difference between the two. I personally have never used the word "sneakers" in my life.)
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Post by anzuhana on Oct 24, 2014 10:56:52 GMT -5
I always called it gym. I guess whether a person calls it gym or PE is a regional thing.
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Post by booboobrewer on Oct 24, 2014 19:04:58 GMT -5
We only called it P.E. in elementary.
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mallorypike
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If I were thirteen instead of eleven, life would be a picnic...
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Post by mallorypike on Jan 3, 2016 20:42:18 GMT -5
In elementary school, it was called P.E. In middle and high school, it was called gym.
I love this book! I've only read it once and that was several years ago So my memory is limited. I can definitely relate to Mallory about hating gym and team sports. Her boy theory was dumb, though.
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andrew
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Post by andrew on Mar 11, 2016 19:43:46 GMT -5
Not great but pretty good, it was fun to read a combination of Mallory both being hyperbolic and having genuine problems. I did feel bad for her when some of the boys were real mean to her and no one tried to defend her. That some of the girls are also mean but she focuses on boys as the problem is OK selective perception by her.
I disliked sports, although I enjoyed a little soccer and basketball, and really disliked volleyball which I was terrible at but thankfully the kids at my schools weren't really aggressive in playing it or judgmental about me not playing it well.
I loved that Andrew's being bad (at least what we were shown) was him being overly serious about how to play a game, very in character, although David Michael and the young Hobarts being so bad was a bit out-of-character (although the latter were probably influenced by Claire and Margo).
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