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From: andrew@grkermi.UUCP (Andrew W. Rogers)
Newsgroups: net.college
Subject: Re: Topics for Discussion (phys ed requirement)
Message-ID: <734@grkermi.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 9-Dec-85 12:47:17 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  9 12:47:17 1985
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Reply-To: andrew@grkermi.UUCP (Andrew W. Rogers)
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Summary: 

In article <1054@gitpyr.UUCP> scott@gitpyr.UUCP (Scott Holt) writes:

>		3) Physical Education requirements - What kind do you have.
>				 We are required to take a drown-proofing
>				 course and some people don't like that.

PHYSICAL EDUCATION???  I thought that sort of crap was scrapped for good
in the early 70's!  (Oh, sorry - I forgot that we were going "back to
basics" after all that "permissiveness"!  :-)  )

Anyway, I spent my senior year of high school cross-registered at the
local community college (my advice to anyone else who may be considering
this: DON'T!) and had to take Phys. Ed. to satisfy the HS requirement
(which, in my opinion, is exactly where such requirements belong.)

Anyway, I satisfied the requirement by taking Golf.  The amazing thing is
that for about 80% of the course we were herded into a gym for calisthenics;
the 20% devoted to golf consisted of watching filmstrips on how to play!
We actually only picked up a club once - to whack away at golf balls 
tethered by about 50' of fishing line!  To top it all off, we had a *final
exam* of multiple-choice questions covering the filmstrips we slept through -
things like selection of irons & woods for various lies, penalties, etc.

Weird!


AWR

"Which of the following does not belong:  a) Arnold Palmer  b) Jack Nicklaus
c) Tony Lema  d) Kareem Abdul-Jabbar?"