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- cptshamrock, on 07/03/2008, -3/+64Round's a shape
- NeelxSarkar, on 07/05/2008, -5/+52I live in Texas and had to do this test, those results are because no one took it seriously, for the mile we walked around a track, I think about 3 people ran.
For the situp and pushup test, we were supposed to go until we couldn't anymore; everyone just did 1 and then said thats it.
It was a waste of time/money and these "results" don't mean anything. - neil1492, on 07/05/2008, -4/+31Now the rest of the country thinks Texans are lazy fatties. Good job not taking it seriously!
- ghee, on 07/05/2008, -1/+27Walle-E is going to become a realit-E.
- nebben, on 07/05/2008, -5/+28Umm, because we [healthy people and not healthy people] will end up paying for their worse health over their lifetimes. Also, from an economic standpoint, unhealthy people [obese or otherwise] wont be as productive as healthy people, causing a reduction in GDP. That means more money is going to be spent eventually fixing people [unhealthy/obese high school students in this case] that can't work as hard, and less money will go into people's pockets + resulting in less tax revenues. In a nutshell at least...
- bensone1, on 07/04/2008, -5/+25I guess that proves that everything is big in Texas. Yee-haw.
- BrownManUPS, on 07/04/2008, -4/+21It's not an obsession, it is pointing out a society problem: kids these days eat the wrong foods and live a slightly unhealthy lifestyle. If ever you have a kid (or have one), you'll want to be sure that they are on the right track, or else your kid may be in that 90%.
- Xvash2, on 07/05/2008, -2/+15I live in Texas, and nobody took the test seriously. In fact, people would try to do the mile as slow as physically possible.
- pwnerofnoobs, on 07/05/2008, -1/+13Yes and some are very good at it.
- XorpheusX, on 07/05/2008, -2/+14I'm a senior in high school in the San Antonio area, and this test was ridiculous. As far as I know, a majority of our school's ATHLETES struggled with the demands of this test, and a good number of them failed as a result.
Most people are against the test existing in the first place, and don't think it'll still be happening in the next few years.
Think about it. They've taken vending machines out of schools, yet we can still bring in whatever the hell kind of food we want from home for our lunches. Now we have a mandatory physical fitness test, but how are they supposed to force us to keep to these same standards (which as I've said, are a stretch for most people taking the test) when we're at home? Like the first commenter said, "It's their issue; not mine," and the same applies to the Texas lawmakers that think this will magically fix everything and make everyone want to be healthy - guess what? Like hell it will. Students are going to keep doing whatever they're already doing, just that now they have to do this test once a year. And that's their problem - if they want to fix it, great, if not, fine.
And if anyone is wondering, yes, I did fail the test, and I understand if that revelation brings on some "pot calling the kettle black" responses, but I can't think of more than a few people that passed. - dlsspy, on 07/05/2008, -0/+12irony 1 |ˈīrənē; ˈiərnē|
noun ( pl. -nies)
the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect : “Don't go overboard with the gratitude,” he rejoined with heavy irony. See note at wit .
• a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result : [with clause ] the irony is that I thought he could help me.
• (also dramatic or tragic irony) a literary technique, originally used in Greek tragedy, by which the full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character. - TastyBiscuit, on 07/05/2008, -1/+13To be honest, the story did not take into account that there was no set minimum for anything, so no one took it seriously (I took the test). The people that were taking it were mostly fit, not obese or anything, but they were walking because there was no motivation to do it whatsoever. They need to fix this if they want accurate results rather than assuming everyone is going to do their best all the time.
- KnightMareInc, on 07/05/2008, -3/+14its only going to increase to the cost of living for everybody else.
- SemiSarcastic, on 07/05/2008, -2/+12*sigh*...here we go again.
/from Texas. - gaoshan, on 07/05/2008, -1/+11Saw Wall-E today with my (little) kids. Coming out a morbidly obese couple was walking (waddling?) in front of us and my daughter pointed and said, "Look Daddy, Wall-E people!"
I suspect we will call them that from now on. - SouljaBoyGoDie, on 07/05/2008, -3/+12It's not only in texas. It's here in new york too. ***** McDonalds...
- icdapoakr, on 07/05/2008, -3/+12Not going to lie, if i took that test when I was senior I think I would fail the running portion. I started to work out constantly when I started smoking weed and had a free gym available to me at my local college.
- gak001, on 07/05/2008, -1/+9Well, if you don't have certain product qualities typically expected by the consumer, then you need to specialize in order to maintain your marketability.
- ScarabLordCoral, on 07/05/2008, -0/+8Dugg for your name alone.
- Naieve, on 07/05/2008, -2/+10What do people expect?
You think these kids are just going to raise themselves?
That takes active parenting. I know, sooooooo 1940's... - inactive, on 07/05/2008, -2/+9Sad? Yes. Shocking? No
Look at their parents. And I say that as a Texan....not native but I do live here. - inactive, on 07/05/2008, -1/+7your mom was extraordinary.
- chaos7, on 07/05/2008, -4/+10fat chicks suck
- damentz, on 07/05/2008, -1/+7I was in this fitness test as a graduating student from Leander ISD. The fitness test was a joke.
You did 75 sit ups (sounds fine)
Then you can choose how many push ups you want to do (everyone did like 2 and three people did like 50)
Then you need to run a mile in 12 minutes (noone ran, we just walked and blocked people until they blared their whistle)
Then they made fun of your weight by saying it out loud as you stepped on a "new technology" weight machine.
That thing isn't legit since they didn't make you do anything, so _no one_ did anything. - grantmoore3d, on 07/05/2008, -1/+7Yeah, the wrong shape.... wow, that was mean, I'm sorry.
- Ohnodonho, on 07/05/2008, -0/+6This seems like a grammatically correct sentence to me.
- dusanmal, on 07/05/2008, -0/+6Have anyone read the article? It is not about fat kids (although you could draw the parallel). It is about Physical Education standards, most likely written by some high school dropout who got a "degree" in "Physical Education". Do find those standards, you'll see that they are bizarre.
Physical Education should be eradicated from any schooling as a "subject". Kids should be given choice of the sport they like and play it for fun (or more if inclined). People with "Physical Education" degrees should be sent to work with sweaty paying adults in gyms, where they belong. - nano19, on 07/05/2008, -0/+5I took this fitness test and passed. Im in a soccer team so it was all easy, at least for me.
Also most of the students in my school failed only because they chose to, because they did not put any effort and some didnt even show.
I can say that some of the people who failed are not fat at all, such as girls who are too "girlie" to do push ups.
So the scores should have been a lot higher.
Just FYI - DemonSpawn77, on 07/05/2008, -0/+5I've heard that fat chicks give good head BECAUSE THEY'RE HUNGRY!
- juahomeus, on 07/05/2008, -0/+5So, if this is true why do they have so many damn good high school football teams?
- TexasMd91, on 07/05/2008, -1/+6I also live in Texas, hence the name... and no one took the test serious but a few at my school too...
- brettmurf, on 07/05/2008, -0/+4Jokes? Most high school football players are not physically fit, and I doubt could pass a good portion of these tests. Then 10% of them are really good athletes to do the quality work that scores points or gets scholarships. Have you ever watched a high school football game? Most of the team moves a solid 3 feet then gets a nice long breather.
Moving lots of weight while standing still ≠ being fit - inactive, on 07/05/2008, -1/+5Yeah, so a bunch of ***** high school seniors are going to try to do something that doesn't make a difference for them? At my school, they said that the results wouldn't affect whether we graduated or not, so everybody just hung out for the period they did the testing. I'm pretty sure it would've been the same even in Colorado (the least fat state).
- inactive, on 07/05/2008, -0/+4When 60% of the GDP is from consumer spending, and with America having very little manufacturing capacity left, it honestly doesn't make a whole lot of difference if everyone is fat and lazy.
However the larger concern of public health is a big deal. - arunforce, on 07/05/2008, -0/+4A trunk lift... That's *****, and probably the biggest issue.
Never did one before my life. I can do 60 push ups, but I struggled doing 1 trunk lift. I'm pretty sure I can pass everything else with flying colors. - inactive, on 07/05/2008, -3/+7No motivation, like a hot dog on the end of a string?
I see where this is going. - Barackalypse, on 07/05/2008, -0/+4Never trust the results of a test where the participants have zero incentive to perform well. Also, last I checked the goal of public education wasn't to ensure physical fitness. Given our poor scores in traditional school subjects like reading, math, and science, I'd say we have much bigger things to worry about than the level of physical fitness the kids possess.
- KingGorilla, on 07/05/2008, -0/+4How did the weed help?
- Daiken, on 07/05/2008, -5/+9The fact that you guys didn't take it seriously doesn't help the cause. As neil pointed out, it just shows how lazy you guys are.
- TusharBoy, on 07/05/2008, -1/+5I'm also from Texas, and no one at my school took it serious either. There was absolutely no incentive to do well. We were specifically told that if we failed, there would be no consequence. Why get yourself physically exhausted if it doesn't matter?
I passed by the way, I owned everything except the run. I barely did the run in time. I can't run for my life. - LSDRunner, on 07/05/2008, -2/+5Once again, weed is the answer.
- Seidoger, on 07/05/2008, -0/+3Excellent?
- InetRoadkill, on 07/05/2008, -0/+3Eesh. I'm damn near 50 and I can pass that test. At least I don't have to worry about getting jumped by some high schooler.
I seem to remember hearing that schools have been cutting back on PE classes which might explain these results in part. - RedS0x, on 07/05/2008, -0/+3That's called a pacer...
- jmoh, on 07/05/2008, -1/+4Doing 18 pushups is hard. I'm a senior, and I know last year I was able to do at max 15. But if you work at it like I did, you can easily reach 50 in no time.
- ch33sehead, on 07/05/2008, -0/+3Leomarth, wtf? Who's limiting anyone's desires? This is an article reporting on how 10% of high school seniors in Texas fit their definition of "in shape." It's not an article about forcing fatties to go to fat camp.
- L4WL3RS34L, on 07/05/2008, -1/+4Are you trying to say that Texas is the only state that doesn't take it seriously? Kids tend to not give a ***** about these things, no matter where they are in the country.
- brettmurf, on 07/05/2008, -0/+3At least in earlier education we had yearly events that involved physical tests like this. People got into it 15 years ago here in Michigan. I doubt they are as in to the activities now, or at older ages. However, I wouldn't be surprised to find Texas in a lower tier for this testing, despite how bad it would be everywhere else in 2008. People really are fatter and lazier now.
- XorpheusX, on 07/05/2008, -0/+3The way our school did it, we didn't actually run a mile in the form of, say, laps around a track. We had a small amount of track that was assigned to a group of about 8 people, and ran back and forth, I think the requirement was 71 times (point A to B is 1, then back to A made 2). It may have been a mile if you were to measure it, but really we just ran back and forth across a stretch of about 10 yards.
However, there was a catch - once you get to point B, you wait for a bell of some kind, then go back to point A, then wait, etc.. But there wasn't actually any waiting, once you got there you turned around and by then the bell would ring. Then, after you had gone back and forth however many times, you go to the "next level." Now, the bell sounds are closer together, and therefore you have to speed up. If you didn't make it across before the bell sounded, you had one more screw up and then you were out. So now that I think about it, the running portion of the test wasn't so much a fitness test as it was a competition.
Hah, "new technology weight machine"? We just call them scales. - 9bpm9, on 07/05/2008, -0/+3I doubt it. I went to high school in Missouri, which is apparently a fat state too, and most people weren't fat in any way, and this was a school with 2,500 people.
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