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[Image][Image][Image]For those of us who spent years undergoing the ritual humiliation of school gym classes, this fifties film explains it all. Mom's concerned that son Paul isn't getting enough exercise. He keeps asking his mom to write him notes excusing him from gym class. He's bullied by the other boys and he's becoming a 'loner' - a terrifying prospect for a parent in the hyper-sociable fifties. Paul's gym class is taught by his regular classroom teacher - the kids play poorly supervised games or simply mill around the playground.
Mom and the other parents pressure the school board to hire a gym teacher. That's no surprise since this film is sponsored by the 'American Association of Health, Physical Education and Recreation' and other athletically inclined organizations. The film shows idealistic scenes of children and teenagers in structured gym classes. I had forgotten how hideous the girls' gym uniforms used to be. Now that Paul's school has 'real' gym classes, his school becomes what Mom calls the 'right kind of place'. But what about the bullies who picked on Paul? That seemed to be the school's real problem.
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