How Elementary School Gym Class Skewed My Self-Image
Channel: Alex Zorach
Date: 2014-09-30

My elementary school gym class led to a distorted self-image by comparing me, a kid in the 5th percentile of height and weight, against bigger kids at competitive games. Here I explain what went wrong in my education, how I formed a healthier self-image of my own physical fitness, and how we can reform or restructure our gym classes or physical education classes so as to cultivate a more realistic and healthier approach to the body and health.