PE LessonsFor some they may have been the highlight of the school week, but all we remember is a never-ending series of punishments involving inappropriate nudity and climbing up ropes until you wet yourself.
Tell us about your PE lessons and the psychotics who taught them.
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chthonic, Thu 19 Nov 2009, 17:36)
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I was outstanding at PE/Games.....in that I was the most useless at it that my school had ever known. That was 30 years ago, and I would be very surprised if they have seen anyone more useless than me since then. My most enduring memory of PE was when we all had to vault over the wooden horse in the gym when I was in my last year at prep school (13 years old). Everyone found it easy. Everyone except me, that is. I couldn't do it.
Now, if you can't do algebra or conjugate French verbs or whatever, the teacher accepts that this is quite common and tries patiently to help you. PE teachers don't think like that. In fact most of them don't think at all. Their reaction to someone not completing said vault, or a triple somersault, or shinning up the climbing ropes is that OF COURSE you can do it really, you're just being stroppy.
Well the bell went, so I thought I'd been saved. Not a bit of it. Despite my protestations that I'd get into trouble for being late for my next lesson, the PE teacher kept me behind and made me keep trying, much to the amusement of the junior kids (9/10 years) who were waiting outside for their PE lesson. I never did get it right.
I sometimes think that if I'd been born 50 years before and ended up in a German POW camp, my efforts at vaulting would have distracted the guards long enough for the Eurotunnel to have been built a long time back.
(, Fri 20 Nov 2009, 14:35, Reply)
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