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Re:Teens' anxiety levels dropped during pandemic, study finds by ip26 on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @10:52AM (#24353839)
get out of it what you put into it

Physical Education wasn't my favorite class, but never once did anyone talk about the theory behind developing athletic performance or recruiting the proper muscles for a movement or anything like that. It was just "go run" or "play a game of baseball".

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Re:Teens' anxiety levels dropped during pandemic, study finds by superhuzza on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @11:48AM (#24354353)
In my opinion, you can still get a lot out of PE just by doing it even with little instruction. Being made to play basketball will almost certainly develop team-working skills, hand-eye coordination, fitness etc, with no involvement from the teacher.

But I agree that there is some lost potential in terms of building a strong knowledge base about fitness and well-being. The paper below suggests there are likely a lot of moderating factors in the benefits of PE.

https://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1080/02671520701809817

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