I think my PE lessons at school were fairly normal...
...the teachers much preferred the sporty kids, and would let them get away with murder. Those who were asthmatic and overweight (i.e. yours truely) would be either shouted at or ignored - no support, no help, no encouragement.

But then, in my final term of PE at high school, it was decided we would have a unihock tournament (it's indoor hockey with a puck, if you're not familiar with it). Rather than allow ourselves to be the last picked, all of the PE underachievers decided to band together into a team of, lets be frank, losers. We then decided to subvert the game as much as possible.

This involved cheating as much as the 'all star' team did, but only when playing against them (we played as fairly as our opponents did). We took the puck from someone likely to score, and scored own goals on their behalf. At one point, my stick broke, and as there were no spares, I was required to play with the stick in one hand and the paddle in another.

This gave us all a new sense of purpose, and we won the tournament.

I would like to think that after witnessing this, our PE teachers realised that you just need to motivate the underachievers in the right way, but I doubt it...
( TheAlmightyBeev, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 10:03, Reply)