Manifesto of children and youth to physical education teachers:
WE ASK YOU ABOUT OUR FUTURE!
Dear Physical Education Teachers,
We are not writing this letter as students who want to tire themselves out less.
We do not write to demand.
We are writing because we need you more than ever before.
We write because we only have one childhood.
And it is happening right now.
We are writing this manifesto because we want to have a future.
Not an abstract one. Ours – strong, fit, healthy.
We know that you meet us every day in the gym, on the pitch, in the hallway, and sometimes in the last five minutes of class.
Sometimes with a smile. Sometimes with resignation.
But you always are.
And that is why we are writing to you.
Because we want to be strong – but we don't know how.
We can't say it, but we need strength.
Not only muscles – strength that will make us not be afraid to get up for school in the morning.
We will not be ashamed of how we look.
We won't be afraid that someone will laugh at us in PE again.
That we won't make it. That we'll be last.
Many of us are overweight.
Many of us can't do a pull-up.
Many of us have never felt that our body can be a source of joy rather than shame.
Many of us have already given up.
But there are also those who run fast, jump high, and play great.
And they need you too.
Because even the best of us—those held up as role models — also want to grow. They also want more.
They want safety in movement. They want understanding of their own muscles, precision, and protection from injury.
They want to learn to control their body as if it were an instrument.
We are asking for a seat.
Not a hall with a concrete floor. Not a gym with five gray machines and everyone doing the same thing over and over.
We are asking for a place that will be a light in November.
A place where you enter with the feeling that something special is happening.
Where music plays that doesn't tire us, but wakes us up.
Where are the colors – not bright like neon, but warm like home.
Where there are no prohibitions on the walls, only inspiration.
Where equipment is not a threatening piece of furniture, but a friend that helps you discover your strength.
We are asking you for SOMETHING MORE THAN A PE GRADE.
We are asking for a School Dream Gym!
Not to have a place to "complete a lesson".
BUT TO FINALLY BEGIN THE LESSON OF LIFE.
The School Dream Gym is not a gym.
It is a light in a school that can sometimes be gray and tired.
It's a space where everyone can practice however they feel comfortable. Where there are no better or worse ones – because everyone fights for themselves.
This is a place where:
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we can see on the screen how our muscles work,
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we can feel that we have influence over our own body,
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we can come up with exercises that are fun – but build strength,
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We can exercise at a rhythm that suits our temperament, mood, day.
The fact that the machine in front of us does not say: "do this and that" - but:
"what do you want to try today?"
This is exactly what this training module is like, and someone created it with us in mind.
Not about adult bodybuilders.
About us – children who want to move, but do not want to be judged, compared, or shamed.
This is a place that allows us to go wild – but with sense.
This is not about madness in the literal sense.
It's about choice. Freedom. Creativity.
We know you were not taught this.
We know that your studies did not include strength training for children.
We know that no one told you how to teach us how to work with muscles, joints, and the nervous system.
We know that even the scientists who wrote about it never introduced it into university curricula.
We know you are between a rock and a hard place – requirements, tradition, grades, lack of equipment.
But that is precisely why we are writing to you.
Because we do not write as those who demand – but as those who believe.
BECAUSE IF NOT YOU – THEN WHO?
There is no other place we can be every day.
There are no other adults who can do this with us systematically.
There is no one who has the same influence as you – day by day, lesson by lesson, word by word.
Please change your thinking.
That PE is not a break from learning.
That strength is not a luxury.
That muscles are not aesthetics – they are health, immunity, fitness, protection.
We ask you to become guides to strength.
May you open the door for us to a place that may be the first place in school that truly welcomes us without judgment.
We are asking you for more than a change of venue.
WE ASK YOU ABOUT OUR FUTURE.
We don't want a LESSON TO PASS.
We want lessons that stay IN THE MUSCLES. IN THE HEART. IN THE MEMORY.
