PE Teachers - a mixed bag
I think we're guilty of over-generalising PE teachers a bit here. I certainly never had any who seemed like paedos, and they weren't even ALL bastards.

1st) Mr Dale - classic hard bastard, stupid tash, only interested in the sporty kids. Didn't learn much, but he didn't really torture us either. I entered a school "Superstars" competition, and came second in the swimming, beating everyone from my year and all but one from the year above, and was decent at sprinting too, but that didn't interest him.

2nd) Mr Hind - brilliant! Made every lesson fun, found activities that everyone would like, made an effort with the disinterested peope, and actually taught us skills. Wasn't so totally obsessed with football and rugby that nothing else counted, so I learned that I was the best in my school and shot-putt, and a decent sprinter. Until that school, I had assumed myself crap at everything but swimming.

3rd) Mr Reynolds. This guy was the proper deal. Bullied the younger kids, then tried to be all cool and matey with the older kids. Literally would not give anything above a C to anyone who was not in the football and rugby team. One memorable year, I was in the track team for 200m, circuit training would see me and one other guy battling it out tooth and nail to be the best, I was in the top couple few at badminton, and volleyball, and though I was shit at cross-country, I ran, in a situation where the runners ran, and everyone else walked, so I tried hard and finished well. I got a C.

The other great injustice from him was that I tried out for 100m, and finished second, so he selected the winner, and a member of the football team who wasn't at the trial, and put me in 200m, which they hadn't trialled for at all, and at which I was crap.
(Sammyhaswoefullyneglectedyou, Thu 26 Nov 2009, 12:18, Reply)