Worst/best memory of PE:
1) Every hour of every competitive sport, every fucking one of them. Except...
2) Surprisingly perhaps, dodgeball. I was nimble as a gazelle, limber and whippety as a ninja ballet dancer, untouchable. I fucking *taunted* those would-be bullying fuckers.
1) Every hour of every competitive sport, every fucking one of them. Except...
2) Surprisingly perhaps, dodgeball. I was nimble as a gazelle, limber and whippety as a ninja ballet dancer, untouchable. I fucking *taunted* those would-be bullying fuckers.
I loathed PE at school, but in retrospect I think the utterly unconscionable wrongness of it all comes down to competitive sports, while actually, you know what, taking ownership of my body later via working out was no small factor in sorting out all the teenage self-esteem shit.
Every fucking dickwad PE teacher who couldn't think of anything other than competitive sports to do their job of getting kids in shape should be whipped out of town and driven into the fucking sea. That was a massive fucking fail, actively harmful to the health of countless kids.
I mean, it's fucking Hollywood trope level truism how that just fucked-up the skinny and fat kids and otherwise less physically able. It was actively harmful to mental health because hello, *ritual humiliation*. And I daresay it drove *innumerable* of us deeper into unfitness.
I'm not saying I liked the dull gruelling physical circuit exercise shite I did at the BBs a whole lot more, so that probably wouldn't have been a whole lot better, but I do remember at my school we had a trampoline that came out like once a fucking year. And ping pong tables.
I'm not even sure the trampoline and ping pong tables came out for first and second years at all. It was like, one week in the last year PE was compulsory, suddenly it turns out they have stuff you can have some fucking fun with while all the bullying dicks play footie.
I have a vague memory of discovering they had weights in a wee mini-gym room, but being told we couldn't use them because they were too heavy & we were too young. I guess maybe it was S1 or S2 or summat & it's to do with bones still growing, but really? *Get lighter weights* FFS.
I mean, yeah, well fucking done, PE teacher. Great job not just actively discouraging the wimpy & dorky kids most in need of exercise, but brushing them the fuck off when they come to you looking for *some* way to turn shit around.
