Stories on This Week's Writing Prompt
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PE and other Sorrows
Before I can start talking about PE, I need to explain a couple of things. When I was in elementary school (fifth grade, I [...]
Readers’ Choice
You Don’t Mess Around With Gym*
Physical Education, or Gym as we called it, was by far my least favorite class in high school. First of all, we had to wear [...]
No more gym
If you are someone who disliked gym, join me on a little fantasy trip. You arrive at high school for the first day of your [...]
PE ABCs: Agony from Bombardment to C Stunts
The bottom of the gym suit consisted of … bloomers. Yes, ballooning from the waist and ending in tight elastic at the widest [...]
Not-So-Fast Times at West Junior High
Pause and conjure up the image of what we looked like. Clearly charter members of the Dork Platoon.
PE for Girls Over Three Generations
I wish my PE perils had been more pleasurable and that I had learned activities I could have done all of my life.
Ultimate PE
We quickly realized ,,, that the rules of touch football could easily be adapted to Frisbee, so off we went to our high [...]
More Dance, Less Volley Ball
Let me be clear. I am not an athlete and never enjoyed any sort of organized team sport. Just built that way. So PE was [...]
Stories from the Previous Prompt
Exams
Blue Book
" [T]he final grades [were to be] based solely on the grades of the papers, but...any student opting for this waiver [...]
Another class, another quiz
Doodles around the edge of the exam plugged “Rule, Britannia”
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Okay, Charlie
I had to hold onto the steering wheel to reach the pedals.
Prompted By Learning to Drive
Baby You Can Drive My Car
The driving age in New Jersey, where I grew up, was seventeen for some reason, even though in almost every other state in the [...]
Prompted By Learning to Drive
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