PE teachers getting the boot

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As if PE In schools for the past decades hasn’t resulted in obesity. Just look around.

you still haven't answered..what state? As a health/pe teacher/coach, this is concerning.. so where are you? Is it an entire state, county, one district? HS, MS, Elem?

I went to high school in a Midwestern Red State.

One of the things we did in PC class was square dancing.

PE Teachers have failed this country. This majority are obese and don't give a f- and are collecting a paycheck. Our obesity rate for children is #1 in the world, right above Mexico. PE teachers are on par with cops in terms of intelligence required for the role. I have not issue leaving fitness alone to the family, peer group, military, or extra curriculars, because PE has been around forever and has not resulted in mass gains.

The other thing we did, our freshman year, was swim.

I can't describe to you what a bad idea this was. Sure, it was only a few years since we all hung out at the pool all summer anyway, but things are a bit different by the time you're in ninth grade. And the girls are there, too. This was dreadful.

teachnomore wrote:

We either have to accept another position (SPED or substitute) or be furloughed. When if schools resume no health or PE classes.

I would be concerned about your district's compliance with Federal law if they are moving gym teachers to SPED without having the required certification and training. And why wouldn't there be health classes? Those can be done with distance learning and might even be better with distance learning so you do not have to deal with the kids making each other laugh during sex ed.

PE would obviously be a disaster. The last thing you want is to get kids breathing hard in big groups. My son gets more exercise playing around after school than he ever did in PE class.

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Sapel says "PE teachers have failed our country. " Decoded: liberal talking point #16666, if you dont support liberalism, you have failed(and lied, and stole, and judged, and racist, and xenophobic, and anti science........) stfu

Sapel wrote:

PE Teachers have failed this country. This majority are obese and don't give a f- and are collecting a paycheck. Our obesity rate for children is #1 in the world, right above Mexico. PE teachers are on par with cops in terms of intelligence required for the role. I have not issue leaving fitness alone to the family, peer group, military, or extra curriculars, because PE has been around forever and has not resulted in mass gains.

Well lets just say that some PE teachers even the country that I teach aren't very good but that mate is in every profession.

As a Physical Education teacher for 25 years in both the US and Australia I can tell you that we do our best to change the lives of the students we teach. Sorry your PE teacher didn't care about you.

This is a fact wrote:

I went to high school in a Midwestern Red State.

One of the things we did in PC class was square dancing.

private school in an eastern purple state (voted red until the past couple elections). We learned square dancing in elementary pe. HS pe was a complete waste of time where we played whatever games with balls after doing a silly warmup. I tried to conserve as much energy as I could for xc and track practice and did not give two shakes about the pe games, who won, how I did, etc.

PE is probably necessary for kids not playing a sport - being on a sports team or participating in an extracurricular sport - be it ballet or club soccer should fulfill the pe requirement.

Let's be honest, PE is just extra recess time.

They need to spend more time learning.

Sapel wrote:

PE Teachers have failed this country. This majority are obese and don't give a f- and are collecting a paycheck. Our obesity rate for children is #1 in the world, right above Mexico. PE teachers are on par with cops in terms of intelligence required for the role. I have not issue leaving fitness alone to the family, peer group, military, or extra curriculars, because PE has been around forever and has not resulted in mass gains.

Yep, pe is a big failure. We only put emphasis on it so we could hopefully keep up with the USSR in oympic medal counts anyways. Now the fittest kids are fitter than ever and the fattest are fatter than ever. PE spots are usually filled by a coach who the school can't pay to just coach football, soccer, cheerleading, etc. but the school would prefer to have that good sports coach than a mediocre coach and great pe teacher.

We did square dancing also.

And...we did bowling. During the 50 minute class we took a 15 minute bus ride to the local bowling alley. Changed into the silly shoes. Had enough time for everyone to bowl three frames, then loaded up the bus back to school.

PE...what a joke!

Luv2Run wrote:

Your mama let you run with scissors wrote:

Health and PE classes have been useless given the epidemic of obesity in the US. Time for a change.

1) There have been massive cutbacks in PE requirements for decades.

2) What in the past constituted PE was really poor. Rather than teaching fundamental movement skills PE teachers often have activities that have kids standing around a lot and not PLAYING!

Add in the cut in recess and we have all sorts of problems.

You got It, and one component of a growing nation of fatsos.

joedirt wrote:

Teachers were relishing teaching from home and were telling everyone to shut down in a similar fashion.

I don’t know a single teacher that enjoyed elearning. Not a single one.

joedirt wrote:

and were telling everyone to shut down in a similar fashion.

Oh - the horror! If only we listened, then we wouldn’t be failing horribly at containing this virus.

CoachB wrote:

Disco Stu wrote:

Wow. Clearly you don't work with kids. I was a 4:14 miler but could never have done 10 pullups.

Yeah, and I was a 4:28 miler. At age 49 can still knock out 15 pull ups pretty easily. Just because you can run a fast mile doesn't mean that you have a high overall level of fitness, which is the goal of a good P.E. program. I make all my track kids do pull ups. Vaulters do a lot, distance kids do few. Almost every boy on my team (except for some of the throwers) can do 10 pull ups.

And just because you can knock out 15 pull ups doesn't mean you have a high overall level of fitness. See now how you idea is crap? Your tests are crap and mean nothing which is why we shouldn't use them.

You may be able to do 15 “pull-ups” easily but 15 proper pull-ups from a dead hang on each one is really impressive. And 15 easily means close to 20 maxed out.

teachnomore wrote:

We either have to accept another position (SPED or substitute) or be furloughed. When if schools resume no health or PE classes.

B.S.. This isn't true at all.

SPED is an entirely different endorsement. Substitutes don't even have to be licensed.

Bad troll.