Devious Dudes Indeed

Have you read the post "The New and Improved Dysfunctional School" about my school? If so, you will recall my remarks about Gym class and its everlasting significance in our school. I was genuinely shocked to see that they actually shortened Gym to one half our, as it was, in previous years, two hours long on certain of our seven hour days. Seriously.

This absurd act of abbreviating Gym class was, however, short lived. It was announced last week that, due to the fact that students were "suffering from an inability to complete their homework as a result insufficient class time", school would be.....exteeeeended....for an extra fifteen minutes. Now, pray tell, what difference does it make if your homework is done at school, or at home? Let's just pretend for a moment that it does. Do you think "The Administration" did indeed give us a fifteen minute "study hall" in which to do our homework? Of course not. What to you think they did instead- hmm? GYM!!! SURPRISE!!!

And, as if that's not enough, our Bible teacher, who is also our Gym teacher, recently took sick. Normally, when this sort of thing happens, the school will send for a sub teacher to teach in the stead of the absent teacher. Perfectly understandable right? Wrong. You see, rather, we skip Bible class altogether and instead begin our next class, leaving an entire extra hour on our schedule. Do you suppose that this "open" is given us to increase our study time? Of course not- blasphemy! What, do you think we do instead? GYM!!! HURRAY!!! This is understood as proper procedure in the instance of said teachers absence.

Now, don't get me wrong. Is there anything wrong with Gym class? Absolutely not. BUT, when you extend school solely for the purpose of extending Gym, and tell the parents that your intention is to increase study time, I say you may be a tad deceitful. And, don't you find it a bit strange that one would skip Bible and replace it with Gym in a Christian School?