I disliked PhysEd class, but I mostly had instructors for it that weren't abjectly horrendous. (At the time, I thought it was awful - but I've learned that other people had it far worse.) The usual problem from what I've heard of other people's trials is that many schools seem to think it's appropriate to have the same people who coach the sports teams be the PhysEd instructors, or vice-versa. This does have some validity - but the problem is that PhysEd class is, ideally, a place to teach kids to take care of their bodies, learn to enjoy some form of physical activity and set them on a road to being healthy adults. Bringing sports-team competitiveness into it is a recipe for making those who start out being less physically accomplished hate the very idea of being active.
Some of the instructors were better than others; a couple I remember had interesting ways of preventing the scene you describe with two "team captains" trying to avoid having a person on their teams by randomizing the selection process in various ways.
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Date: 2010-06-11 04:42 pm (UTC)Some of the instructors were better than others; a couple I remember had interesting ways of preventing the scene you describe with two "team captains" trying to avoid having a person on their teams by randomizing the selection process in various ways.