We appreciate the efforts of our teachers very very dearly. However, certain subjects just don’t hit the right spot. Between the two opposite ends of STEM-based classes and athletic activities, two core subjects lie at both of these ends: math and PE. There may be some benefits, but mostly pitfalls to both.
In this article, we discuss the following question:
Should we get rid of PE classes or math classes?
| PE Classes | Math Classes |
| 1. Extremely Hazardous After staying up all night to study for your Physics test, sacrificing your sleep, happiness, and livelihood, you stumble into gym class only half-conscious. You’re thinking about all the homework you got behind on as a result of this test, and regretting the three slices of Papa John’s Pizza you ate for lunch in distress. As your thoughts start to drift you to sleep, you’re clocked with a frisbee coming at sixty-five miles an hour straight for your head, from the group of freshmen who appear to be the self-proclaimed “D1” ultimate frisbee team in Bliss Gym. As you pick yourself up, you’re immediately pummeled by a volleyball and only then you hear the voices from afar yelling “Heads!” After not one but two absolutely traumatizing incidents you go to the bathroom to decompress, only to find that every single bathroom in the gym hallway is locked. You could blame the root of your problems on anything else, but they clearly all became apparent the second you stepped into a dangerous and life-threatening concurrence called “gym class.” | 1. Universally Hated Many people across the globe are no stranger to the pure hatred and rage that math brings. From the early elementary days math homework has constantly drained away every student’s energy and even after all that, is never ending. It’s overcomplicated with letters and Greek symbols haunting later classes in addition to fractions, decimals, and square roots. Your brain is expected to remember a flood of equations for a weekly test you didn’t study for. Even kids aren’t spared. With countless tears being shed from division and multiplication, math has ruined the lives of everyone. Just when you think it couldn’t possibly get worse, math is even given in the form of word problems so not only do you have to know math, but you also have to read about some outrageous scenario. Just to make things more difficult, Jamie now has five hundred bottles of dish soap and needs to buy three hundred and eighty-seven more for 6.32 dollars per bottle and you have to determine how much money Jamie needs. Some might argue that Jamie needs something other than money. |
| 2. Completely Unnecessary PE classes are completely unnecessary. Instead, you should go to a math class and do actual work that is practical and will not endanger your life. You will absolutely love staying up until the wee hours of midnight finding how many more oranges than pizzas John sold to his fifth cousin, crying over your inability to use a compass to draw an eight-pointed star, or finding the anti-derivitive of some totally irrational function. This is all much more applicable knowledge to real life. Wouldn’t this be so much more fun and so much more worth your time than risking it all for an unnecessarily terrifying gym class? | 2. Completely Unnecessary Math classes are completely unnecessary. When was the last time you needed to find the antiderivative of your taxes? Never. The most you need is addition and for that you can just count. Instead, your time would be much better spent exercising in gym class, learning how to shoot baskets for your future as a NBA star. Everyone would be much more excited to do cross country skiing or ultimate frisbee than deciphering whatever hieroglyphics show up on their math test. Gym class comes with no homework in exchange for the everlasting fear of having a swim class first thing in the morning that blesses you with the natural smell of chlorine for the rest of the day. |
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