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It’s the typical job where nothing happens until it happens. I suppose they would be the ones more likely to end up calling an ambulance for a student.
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Submitted 11 months ago by body_rhythm@lemmy.ca to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
P00ptart@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Or explaining that the game actually IS safe, except how little Timmy was doing it and that’s why he’s going to be really good at multiples of eight from now on.
anguo@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Most PE teachers I had, just told us to play soccer and left.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 11 months ago
Mine did nothing when I kept getting attacked in the changing rooms.
HiddenLychee@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Same. My teachers may not have sexually assaulted me, but the students absolutely did and the teachers just pretended not to see.
P00ptart@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I honestly dont even remember what it was like. 22 years feels like an eternity but I didn’t even have to go to gym my senior year, because I had joined the national guard already.
tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 11 months ago
My brother in law confirms this.
hahattpro@lemmy.world 11 months ago
But you also need another job at night for living.
imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Do you ever let the kids play games with butt scooters like these? If not I would highly recommend adding them to your curriculum. Those things were the bomb
dan1101@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Ow my fingers!
PopcornPrincess@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Also, it’s a rite of passage as a kid to accidentally run your fingers over with the scooter.
P00ptart@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I never, ever did that… Smashing them between other kids scooters? Every damn time.
body_rhythm@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
[deleted]I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 11 months ago
These ones were much better. I still don’t understand the physics of how wiggling the handlebars back and forth made them go forward, but it felt like magic at the time. Much less finger pinching and no Charlie horsing your groin trying to crab walk with wheels under your butt like the other ones.
P00ptart@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Good. Those things were torture devices. They weren’t even fun, the only way you could move quickly was backwards. So kids hitting heads, necks, backs, fingers, pinching/smashing hazard, then one wreck happens and since all the kids are going backwards at speed, there’s instantly a pileup of mangled kids. Those things were so dangerous and they sucked shit even if you didn’t consider the danger? Give me 20 kids with hockey sticks and a tennis ball ALL DAY.
Admetus@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
What age group? Because young teenagers are not always going to play ball. Speaking as a teacher who has seen 5 teachers leave my school ‘for reasons’.
b3an@lemmy.world 11 months ago
We did this when I was between 7-9 years. Once they had us line up on one side, and we could only cross the room, using those. Some tried to push and got ‘stranded’ between. One kid, put one in front of the other then swapped. Then again. Using two to cross. Soon many were trying to. I still remember this decades later 😁
body_rhythm@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
[deleted]Admetus@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Sounds like you’ve got a nice bunch, 12-13 years old can be hit and miss.
brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Best PE teacher I had actually made it a class where we had to learn the rules of the games and were given tests on them. Then we spent a couple weeks playing the games and she had the kids acting as referees enforcing the rules we learned. We played basketball, baseball, football, bowling. She taught us different dances like line dancing and square dancing. When it was winter and there was enough snow. We even learned cross country skiing.
Then I moved to a different school and my PE curriculum became "run a mile.’ I have exercised induced asthma. Running was a literal hell for me.