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- Sandra: Can’t you just give me an F?
- P.E. teacher: You won’t get away that easily!
- Sandra: Can’t you just throw me in a pool of molten lava?
- P.E. teacher: I would, but the school board forbade it after almost a whole class chose that option last year.
- Sandra: Stupid school board.
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Plus, budget cuts made that pool of molten rock VERY difficult to maintain.
Poor Sandra.
No pool of lava for her.
Will she make it?
What’s bad about the bar bar the training required?
I think she’ll get the hang of it…
Go Sandra! Cynicism won’t help you with this irony thing the teacher makes you deal with!
Wait a minute, instead of doing bar exercises, I have a far better idea! *shoots self*
I was able to do a Police Test once in my city when I was 20….after a written Test, a Running test (Keep running for 12.00 minutes) and a Push up test, the last one was a horizontal bar test…I only needed to do ONE TIME……but I failed..now I have a computer programming job….thank you horizontal bar test..-_-“
How about you try what worked for me:
“You give me an ‘A’, do not make me do this, and I promise not to disasemble your car in the parking lot and hide some of the parts?”
It helped to know more about cars than the idiots driving them. My coach knew I could carry out my threat.
Oookay – ways out of this…
Fight. Bad idea. Besides, it never works against Drill Sergeant Nasty, and won’t work here.
Flight. She’ll only run you down, and then you’ll be back where you started, only out of breath.
Playing dead. Won’t work, for the same reason as it doesn’t with bears or other predators. While she can’t hear your heartbeat like most animals could, she can still take your pulse.
Self-immolation. Painful. Possibly fatal. Plus the setup would be far too long, and you don’t have the necessary materials.
Spontaneous immolation. Difficult. Extremely so. Believe me. Wanting it isn’t enough.
Immolation (other). Just where is Larisa when you need her?
Pray. That bridge was probably burned during the last story arc.
Half-assery. Jump. Grab bar. Hang for the count of five. Swing forward. Drop. Do finishing pose. Probably the best thing to try – and hope for an eyeroll and an F.
Maybe if she stares long enough at the bar, the exercises will do themselves.
What!? Getting graded by how many pull ups you can do? What kind of self-esteem generation is this (my US History/Pop culture teacher’s name for the current generation)!? I thought everyone was a winner and acing P.E. just means showing up. What is this, the 80’s!
But seriously, does anyone’s P.E. class in America actually get graded by how healthy you are and not how hard you try (just curious)?
i guess that’s the same reason my school didn’t have that option.
<3 This. Her face is priceless. I love this comic! ^^
Can’t say I know where she is coming from with the whole horizontal bar thing, but a surefire way to get hard exercises ruled out of P.E. is to feign stupidity and ask for a demonstration of the exercise from the teacher when you pretend not to understand the concept 😀
Ah, the joys of being able to choose one’s subjects later on in one’s education.
Lesson learned:
1) Install a pull up bar in your home.
2) Never use it.
3) Panic.
The School’s excuse: No showering on a daily basis at school.
@ Guest:
My class graded you on how fast you can run 1-2 miles as your final and midterm, the rest of the time it was show up, be dressed in PT clothes and you get participation for the class.
You’d think they would tell you it wasn’t against the rules to “swing up.” Using the momentum and lift of your body to pull yourself up is much easier than expecting you to just use physical strength.
I hear you, Sandra! Couldn’t do even one pull-up in Jr. High. I am one of the generation that took ROTC (during the Vietnam War era) rather than do PE.
O_O my gym teacher is going to make us do pull ups next week for our exam. I agree the lava is a lot less painful. T^T
@ Anniss:
I’ve had an impulse.
I can make this a haiku:
Add slight adjustments–
Remember the scheme–
The syllables each line has:
Five, seven, five.
Alas, Sandra North.
No pool of lava for her.
How can she survive?
My goodness I did six of them as a class record for my PE 10 class last year…ot gets easier and is especailly easy if you liked to climb things as a 8 grader or 7 grader
Well, she could always try my tactic- when I had to do pull-ups in gym, I pretended to faint to get out of it.
Of course, the problem there is that you may need a viable medical excuse to pull that off. When I “woke up” in the nurse’s office I claimed not to have eaten lunch and that my blood pressure had suddenly dropped really low. And I got away with it because I have hypotension (that’s LOW blood pressure for those unversed in Latin-derived prefixes) and occasionally I DO faint from it.
What type of school even gives that option in the first place??… i want to know cause that sounds like a great school
In my scholl I needed to just hang on it without chin-ups for a minute to get A. 😀
What’s so evil about it, we didn’t do this at my school. Just jump up, swing your legs up and let go. Hang upside down for a minute with just your knees. Sounds fun. It’s what I would do.
Sarcasm? That is an awesome school teacher. 😀
That explains why there’s no mention of those a grade up from her and her class. Extra crispy extras.
“Can’t you just give me an F?”
Wow, my saying whenever I had to do a sport exercise or presentation in front of the class.
@ Mythril:
Yes. Reminds me of our PE teacher at grammar school. We hated her in the first grade. Then, we gradually got to like her, and the year before last we got along extremely well, even discussing her grandkids with her and so on.
Then, for the last year, we got a different teacher.
Was the pool of molten lava really that bad? I found it quite invigorating!
don’t worry sandra, the lava pool was a lie……they just locked you in a room with nothing but a pull bar and a shark tank…..i still have the scars from the last time.
Wolf in Bears Clothing (Its the last thing they’d expect)
Ellert0 wrote:
Well, that wouldn’t have helped at my school. Mr. Brendt would demonstrate the exercises first. Just to show off, he did ten pullups… with each hand.
I HATED P.E. I pretty much flunked it in High Skool XD
Things I hated was chin up, rope climbing (abit scared of heights Do hate climbing ladders too But once I on the roof I fine LOL), running, changing clothes & showering! (showering was the worst about P.E. yuck! )
Not what I pictured when I thought of a PE outfit. I was thinking sweats (institutional grey of course) or t-shirt and shorts both with school name in huge letters front and back. But that might be my age showing.
so, what kind of exercises are “horizontal bar exercises”? pull-ups and chin-ups?
I’d rather do a little arm work than dissolve, but that’s just me.
Panel 3 reminds me so much of Nichijou that it’s almost not funny. Almost.
@ Gamesman: Maybe by now they find wearing shorts somehow indecent / inappropriate / potentially provoking during P.E.
Hmm, bars is my favourite and I’m off to gymnastics right now…
Love that teacher. 🙂
You can too choose an F. After breaking my leg for the third time because I cannot for the life of me jump hurdles, in 9th grade when the time came around again I sat down in a corner and flat out refused to do it. It’s not like they can pick you up and force you to do anything. If you choose bad grades, then you choose bad grades.
The worst they could do was give me detention, which was fine with me since it gave me a chance to quietly read, or call my mom, which they learned not to do after the first time when she gave them hell for wasting her time.
Not at my school!! XD We show up, change, and BAM. A. @ Guest:
You.. can’t. It’s a pull up bar.. As in you use physical strength to pull yourself upwards. @ VampirateLycan:
Bah! That’s nothing Sandra! I had to do it with a badly sprained wrist because I had sprained it and then fallen on it again and hadn’t went to the doctors again yet to get the note extened
I ended up leaving school early and going to the doctors later that day because my wrist was swelled up and purply-black. From bad sprain to worse sprain when I fell and caught myself on that hand to a hairline fracture when I tried to lift my weight on it.
@ Van:
Eh, that seems more like a Larisa thing to me…
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I wish I had lava at MY school.
@ Guest:
I got graded in high school PE on what I could do. I blew out my shoulder in our racquetball unit and couldn’t complete it, so the teacher failed me for the unit. Then he failed me again in the Presidential Fitness Test’s pushup test because I couldn’t do enough (thanks to the trashed shoulder that hadn’t healed yet).
Have I mentioned how much I hated PE? >.<
@ Cori:
Man, your PE teacher sounds like an ass or a douche, even injuries are not accepted. I bet he love to bully weak kids too huh?
a revenge from the writer?
i blame the internet! lol
lol
I always hated P.E., especially when they’d make us run a mile. I always got an F in running the mile, because I had to walk the whole thing and it was timed. My classmates would breeze through it and spend the rest of the class period playing basketball, while me and the chubby kids would be walking the whole thing. The fact that today I’m healthier than most of the kids I went to school with is amusing and ironic to me now, though I’d still fail at running a mile.