Archery

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Anonymous wrote:Brookland Middle. It is surprising me how many schools offer archery--is archery to DC what ice hockey is to Canada?

umm...no?

PE is about exposing kids to new ways to stay fit/active. We've lived in NJ, PA, and now DC....all have offered archery at one grade level or another.

Haha, okay. Is archery a meaningful way for kids to stay fit? I mean, can you just pick up your long bow and meet up with some kids at the park and... arch? How many people who did the archery kept up with it, as a life sport? Not saying it's wrong, just that it surprised me!! Obviously I'm just being silly and obviously this is great if the kids love it, and (very) obviously this is a sport my school system did not expose me to. When we fully devolve into a post apocalyptic world in which we depend on Kitniss's kills for food, I'll be happy to be surrounded by so many archers.

I don't think archery itself is a great lifetime sport, but yes you can just take a bow and go to a range--several county parks around DC have options. If you hike to where you're going to do archery, that is a good exercise. And there is junior olympics (and obviously Olympic) archery. It's nice that kids get exposed to a variety of things and it's a sport where body size isn't going to give you an advantage or disadvantage!

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Robin Hood

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I hated archery at my midwestern high school. Some nutter always brought in a professional bow they used to kill deer, I almost hit people multiple times. I can't believe that they are still doing archery. Crazy.

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It was one of the favorite PE activities of my random NE suburban high school, mainly because you don't sweat that much.