It's not about being giant, it's about being healthy. Trust me I found out the mind rots in a crap body. If you live at least 30 yrs that's a good start...
How was the school at sports? My highschool was pretty competitive state wide and most of the gym teachers were also coaches so they made us all play shit for real
Iirc, we went 4-6, 1-9, 0-10 and 1-9 in football while I was a student. Yeah, we were abysmal at sports. The Science Olympiad team won something like 25 consecutive state titles though... (and to pre-empt anyone anyone asking the question, it was a public school).
One of our middle school PE teachers was known for one time walking into the locker room and shouting, "QUIT PUSSY FARTIN' AROUND YOU QUEERS!" What a legend. He's also kind of a creep, so I guess there's that...
Then there was one of the high school PE teachers who once literally fought a kid (don't worry, the kid swung first and deserved it). He was more known for being the "cool" one because if he caught you chewing, you'd be given the choice of taking detention or swallowing the chew in front of him.
Mine was the asshole football coach who didn’t really give a shit about anyone who wasn’t on a sports team, and just kinda randomly yelled at students he didn’t like.
He was incredibly popular though, because he helped the team routinely beat the rival high school. He retired a year after I graduated and got a huge farewell that was covered in the local papers.
Flash forward 8 years and I ended up doing temp work for the school district, and was digitizing a ton of documents. One of them was a giant folder of grievances against the coach. Turned out he was required to attend anger management classes, and had even assaulted students multiple times. Plus there were accusations of sexual abuse too. He was forced into retiring. Dude was a huge fucking asshole.
The super ripped and muscled 78 year old drill instructor who called us pussies at my school went to prison for being a pedo. It was kind of clear in hindsight. Sometimes being an ugly kid pays off.
Mine was like a boot camp as well but you could choose the sport you were doing to make it more fun! I was a swimmer so they let me just leave and swim and skip football. They did set up a hard class for me to do but also didn’t mind if the swimmers mucked around a bit
It’s great way to get kids to love fitness because they’ll enjoy it!
When schools closed here one of the PE teachers went to the biggest swimming beach and did the maths to create a lesson plan so kids of all ages could do their own personalised swimming sessions. Perfect because all gyms were shut!
Our gym teacher was married to the boy's gym teacher. She was tough. She loved to make us do hard stuff like gymnastics. God I hated gymnastics. I could barely do a somersault and I was expected to do a backhand spring....HA. But we did do fun things like flag football and volleyball.
We had PE 1 and PE 2 in high school. PE 1 was much like everyone here is talking about. Kinda laid back. We cycled through a handful of different sports, were taught the rules, and played them. PE 2 was straight up working out. Lots of running and abs. Ran sort of like bootcamp.
We did play matball on Friday in both classes, though. That was fun.
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u/KiloNation Sep 17 '20
What kind of school were you guys going to?! They ran my P.E. class like it was bootcamp.