I was popular at school...
So let me even things out and become unpopular here :)

I loved PE, was always in the school teams for nearly every sport we actually participated in (For some reason they wouldn't let me wear a pleated skirt and play netball).

I've seen a lot of people whining about how they were made to run and do sports that they hated and therefore their teacher was a 'bastard/prick/paedo' etc.

Actually, most of them were probably trying to stop you from being bullied as the obese kid you were/were about to become for being so fucking LAZY as not to bother in sports lessons. I doubt all of them wanted you to win Olympic Gold, just not stand at the edge of the field with your hands jangling in your tracky bums, bemoaning the audacity of anyone expecting you to make a fucking slight effort not to die of an early heart attack.

Sorry!
(Galahad is out of his gourd on yellow bentines, Mon 23 Nov 2009, 10:17, 8 replies)

Well I wouldn't say I was obese or lazy
I hated PE simply because it bored the tits off me. The only sport I loved doing was swimming and only because i got to see my mates getting undressed.
( Michael Ellis contributes nothing, Mon 23 Nov 2009, 10:29, closed)

Maybe it would have been OK...
... if they'd actually taught something.

I'm short and skinny and couldn't kick or throw anything very far or in the right direction; after a school career's worth of PE I was still the same: it was just five years of the teacher making me make a fool of myself in front of everyone else by being crap at it. The talented kids got all the attention, advice and help, so I'm sure you enjoyed every minute of it.

It put me off physical exercise so much that I've never been to a gym, nor would I ever want to.

I really wish they'd had cross-country running at my school - or any kind of distance running for that matter - I'd have been great at it.
( teedyay, Mon 23 Nov 2009, 10:47, closed)

I get that there were some...
Less than savoury PE teachers - I encountered a few myself, and certainly don't think everyone is just a lazy oik, but I think in the majority PE teachers just wanted to see some effort. Regardless of ability.
(Galahad is out of his gourd on yellow bentines, Mon 23 Nov 2009, 11:01, closed)

Actually, a lot of this as well
The only thing that the less-skilled pupils were taught in PE was how bitter failure tastes.

In football I always volunteered to go in goals as I could then wear a tracksuit and gloves and watch my teammates freezing their nutsacks off.
( Michael Ellis contributes nothing, Mon 23 Nov 2009, 11:36, closed)

Stuff and nonsence!
I have to say I disagree. Not everyone is sporty. Not everyone is academic either, but in every other subject except PE, the ‘less able kids’ are streamed out into groups that are appropriate to their ability. As such, they don’t get ribbed during class about being crap at Maths, English etc . Yet for some reason, in PE, there is no streaming and everyone has to pitch in together. This usually means that the sporty kids, who are generally the ones who aren’t so bright at academic subjects, can make life hell for the non sporty ones. The teachers seem to support this behaviour by shouting ‘more effort’ and other useless shite. It was never about effort, it was about ability.
Can you imagine a Maths lesson where everyone has to line up so the thick ones can be ritually humiliated in front of the whole year group? It wouldn’t happen! Yet for some reason it still seems acceptable in PE as the Team Captains pick sides. You can’t make a kid switch on to Geography by shouting “put some effort in”. PE teachers need to realise their lessons can mentally scar pupils for life, and turn kids away from physical activity. They need more thought put into PE lessons to appeal to everyone, and not just expect you to run about on a cold muddy field for the sake of it. As you can tell, I was one of those who hated PE lessons, and still, 20 years after leaving school, can’t stand the sight of a football.
(marcooosa has no idea what a board sig is, Mon 23 Nov 2009, 14:28, closed)

Well said, that person
After I left school 20 years ago, I promised myself I would never play football again. To this day, I have kept that promise.
( Michael Ellis contributes nothing, Mon 23 Nov 2009, 15:16, closed)

Maybe this was the case 20 years ago
But I only left school just over 3 years ago and when I was there we had PE setted like other classes. Set one was full of the kids who liked sport and were good at it. Set 2 was full of the kids who were ok or put some effort in and set 3 was full af the shit, lazy or fat kids. See they got it right in the end.
(wehttamman via B3ta for microwave, Mon 23 Nov 2009, 15:26, closed)

wrong wrong and thrice wrong!
I was rubbish at most of PE. I couldn't do basketball and I wasn't good at softball or football.

I was ok at badminton weirdly but not the team/ball games which made me last pick most of the time. Didn't help having been one of 6 people who came to a year of about 270 kids (10 forms of 20+ kids seriously) from a remote junior school.

However, i could swim like a fish and competed internationally while at school. did we do swimming so i could be good at PE? did we knackers. I went through school being bad at sports, except, i was actually good at the wrong sports.

5t.
(fivetide, Tue 24 Nov 2009, 17:58, closed)