Gym Class: Way More Fun Than It Used To Be?

Remember gym in high school? In particular, how painfully awkward it was and how no one wanted to be there? Even the kids who liked sports?

Well, nothing's really changed since then -- with the glaring exception that some educators are using common sense to make the experience what it should be: unforced fun.

For example, East Side Community High School in NYC has introduced a skateboarding class for credit.

What started in February as an after-school program run by a volunteer has turned into what school officials believe is New York City’s only skateboarding class for credit, one of a range of offbeat physical education electives like dancing, martial arts and spinning newly available in city schools. At 10:30 most mornings, 22 students pour onto the school’s basketball court and, after a few standard exercises, begin maneuvering on borrowed boards.

“I just wanted to try a new sport,� said Diana Castro, a 15-year-old sophomore, who had never skateboarded before taking the class this fall but who now sometimes practices after school, too.

All I know is if Christian Hosoi, Lance Mountain, Steve Caballero, or Mike McGill were teaching us to do McTwists in gym class back in the day, high school as a whole would've been vastly, vastly improved.

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