Like
seemingly everyone here, I avoided PE as much as possible. Couldn't stand the people who taught it, or the people who genuinely enjoyed getting a ball between two cones. Most pointless lesson in the world.

However I had one good PE lesson once. A weird set of coincidences meant I ended up for a few months in a school where my dad was deputy head (though despite us obviously having the same surname no-one twigged.) As deputy head he occasionally had to cover lessons, and ended up covering PE. Now this was an 'educationally disadvantaged' school with the usual assortment of chavs etc, all crowding round with complaints of 'haven't brought my kit' 'this is inhumane' etc.

It was the best way I've ever seen a PE class handled. He chose table tennis, and informed everyone that they were all playing kit or no kit, and it was their own fault if they got their school uniform sweaty (surprising how many kits turned up suddenly) and then worked out a complicated rota (his subjects include maths taught to A-level) that meant everyone in the room had to spend 70% of their time playing tabletennis, but could have 30% malingering time. And randomly picked 1 in 6 people to have the lesson off.

It worked. Yes, I'm a bit proud of my dad.
I think the lesbian teacher might be saved for another post :)
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 19 Nov 2009, 20:25, 1 reply)

Got to disagree about it being the most pointless lesson.
Nothing in the world is more superfluous than General Studies.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Thu 19 Nov 2009, 21:04, closed)