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I remember one time, I'd been off for 3 weeks and was told by the nurse that I'm not allowed to do PE for 3 weeks. When I returned to school, my dad wrote a noting stating this and put 'if you [the teacher] has a problem with it, then phone the doctor's'.
So anyway, I handed my note in, the teacher read it and gave it back to me. She then moaned because I wasn't doing PE and din't bring my kit and had to do so in the future and then made me run around the field for about half an hour, but I stodd there an refused as I wasn't prepared to get ill again (sweat could trigger the problem) dand spent more time off school.
I had to miss nearly a whole term of PE in year nine because I badly aggivated my hip problem and was stopped doing PE to stop me doing any serious long-term damage. I was still expected to take part in certain things. :rolleyes: I refused and ended up bunking half the lessons anyway.
The teachers at my school where only interested in the kids that made an effort, the ones like me who where generally crap at most things and couldnt care less where ignored or humilated.
I hated wearing the kit - black shorts that you had to buy through the school and never fitted and always rode up your thighs and an aertex top. If there had been a kit better suited to covering up a self conscious teen/pre teen that would have improved it. Having to carry the kit around was a pain as well though.
One hour lessons - we always had to do an hour of PE and that never left enough time to get changed afterwards. If you had PE last thing then you were often in danger of missing the bus.
Facilites were crap and damp.
I wish they could teach racing canoeing in schools, that's what I would call an improvement!
So is cardboard, on that scale.
Sigh. Any government action, adn the papers will bleat of civil liberties stolen. Government takes no action, papers accuse it of being to lax.
Fuck it, ban the media.
I think they're the only teachers that don't want to be teachers. You wouldn't employ failed scientists as science teachers, or failed preists as R.E. teachers, but with P.E. teachers, you always get a sense that they were the people who got kicked out of Man Utd's training academy just before the broke into the first team. Actually, I know a P.E. teacher and she's really nice. But then I don't have lessons from her.
Honestly, I don't think P.E. teachers are any worse than any other type of teacher, it's just they're more in a position to be a twat with their punishments.
Ban PE first thing on a Monday morning?
Seriously:
- Anyone who isn't doing PE, don't make them bring their kit and them join in
- Improve facilities
- Allow girls to play games like rubgy and football instead of hockey, rounders and netball every year
- Not make the PE stupidly expensive. We used to have to have a rubgy shirt that cost £16
Make PE more about fun and participation than technique and "optimum" fitness. Any exercise should be seen as good exercise. Vary the number of sports available and keep "elite" coaching until after school, GCSE/A-Level PE lessons or weekends. Far too often those of us who were not as able ended up merely watching those in the school's rugby/hockey/cricket team.
Regarding nutrition, I'm willing to bet the copious amounts of alcohol we, as a nation, drink has as much a part to play as fatty food in contributing to obesity.
Hey, I'm not a fat bastard. Why should I have to pay more for my Sunday McDonalds (usually when nowhere else is open I might add)?
One other thing on P.E. and I'm sure the mums will agree - don't insist on white shorts. It gets ridiculous when someone can't wear a pair of black shorts without the teachers complaining.
I can do one better - we were taught how to make a burger in a bun. and a toastie at one point. My friend, who did advanced Home Ec or something, was taught how to make fish and chips - with a fryer and everything!!
P.E if you ask me needs a huge improvement, I was actually taken out at the age of 13 due to being dyspraxic, and being badly bullied because of this, I should add - but when I was in class , a majority of it was spent doing theory or social dance or the basics of hockey and occasionaly, in the winter, swimming. Makes you think, doesn't it. Perhaps classes should be split into ability, and team picking should be banned (in any class, its not only P.E. , as it's degrading and has left me with very low self esteem/ low confidence) The one good thing about my PE was that uniform wasn't enforced, you could wear what you liked to an extent.
If you ask me , the prices of food need to be fixed, it costs more at the moment for a sandwich at school, than for a burger/chips meal. The latter is also more readily available (there's actually a chip van outside my school and an ice cream van) to get when you're out, which is all wrong.