[LaLaLand]

Bright and well-behaved apart from being very, very talkative.

I remember every year though my ICT teacher slated me, she was absolutely horrible to most people especially me I found, she didn't like that I liked to enjoy myself. One of these "you can only work in complete silence, if you need to ask a classmate something you need to ask me first then I will permit you to speak" no babe! I only had to breathe and she'd send me out even though I always did the work and passed all her projects/exams. She saw me in town the other week and tried to strike up a conversation but I blanked the bitch.

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Jonnii

Bright and well-behaved apart from being very, very talkative.

I remember every year though my ICT teacher slated me, she was absolutely horrible to most people especially me I found, she didn't like that I liked to enjoy myself. One of these "you can only work in complete silence, if you need to ask a classmate something you need to ask me first then I will permit you to speak" no babe! I only had to breathe and she'd send me out even though I always did the work and passed all her projects/exams. She saw me in town the other week and tried to strike up a conversation but I blanked the bitch.

..good for you Jonnii, she sounds like an awful teacher, someone who definitely wouldn't bring out anything good in anyone...

[LaLaLand]

Originally Posted by Ammi

..good for you Jonnii, she sounds like an awful teacher, someone who definitely wouldn't bring out anything good in anyone...

Yeah she was just horrible. You know when you can tell teachers apart from the ones who are their because they enjoy teaching and the ones who are their for the money but hate kids with a passion? She was the latter.

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Jonnii

Yeah she was just horrible. You know when you can tell teachers apart from the ones who are their because they enjoy teaching and the ones who are their for the money but hate kids with a passion? She was the latter.

..yeah I think that you're exactly right Jonnii..for some teaching is a vocation..(and quite a lot) and for others it's just a pay slip and no matter what their knowledge is on a subject, if they don't respect their students and that everyone has a different way of learning..then they are never going to convey that knowledge, which is what they are meant to be doing...it says a lot for you that you passed the exams in that subject regardless of how little respect she had for you...maybe something she could learn..?..

[Z]

Conscientious, intelligent, works hard... don't think I ever had a bad comment, I just got on with my work and didn't give teachers any hassle, I liked being at school

[Livia]

I always had great school reports because I worked really hard at everything... Except PE. I was terrified of PE... I was quite badly bullied and PE was like open season... the changing rooms... the showers... all awful. My PE teacher wrote on my last school report "I don't know the girl". Shameful really, because she allowed the bullying to go on. PE teachers as a group are mostly sadists in my experience... having failed at the competitive sports they teach. On the bright side, she's probably dead now.

[Z]

Originally Posted by Livia

I always had great school reports because I worked really hard at everything... Except PE. I was terrified of PE... I was quite badly bullied and PE was like open season... the changing rooms... the showers... all awful. My PE teacher wrote on my last school report "I don't know the girl". Shameful really, because she allowed the bullying to go on. PE teachers as a group are mostly sadists in my experience... having failed at the competitive sports they teach. On the bright side, she's probably dead now.

Totally agree with you about PE. I don't know what it is about PE teachers but it seems to be a universal thing that if you weren't already good at the sports they taught then they didn't try to help you out whatsoever and just left you to be bullied relentlessly. I had one particular PE teacher who was an absolute ****, this Glaswegian arsehole who had clearly failed at becoming a pro rugby player so had settled for PE teaching and was more interested in trying to chat up this Maths teacher than anything else. Anyway, he made us do the "Bleep Test" on a regular basis (you know the one where you have to run from one end of the hall to the other before the bleep sounds and then there's a 'rest' after x number of runs but the bleeps get closer together and the breaks get shorter so if you're not fit then you're out fairly quickly) and every week he used to berate me for being unfit which of course just made me feel worse and it took all my will power to not burst into tears every week, used to dread going to school on PE day and would be a nervous wreck all morning until the weekly humiliation was over... Urgh

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Livia

I always had great school reports because I worked really hard at everything... Except PE. I was terrified of PE... I was quite badly bullied and PE was like open season... the changing rooms... the showers... all awful. My PE teacher wrote on my last school report "I don't know the girl". Shameful really, because she allowed the bullying to go on. PE teachers as a group are mostly sadists in my experience... having failed at the competitive sports they teach. On the bright side, she's probably dead now.

..although I wouldn't generalise with everyone obviously, I personally have never had a positive experience or a positive opinion of a PE teacher, either as a child or as an adult...

[Z]

Originally Posted by Ammi

..although I wouldn't generalise with everyone obviously, I personally have never had a positive experience or a positive opinion of a PE teacher, either as a child or as an adult...

I think it's because, generally speaking, most PE teachers didn't set out to be PE teachers... whereas I think if you're like a geography teacher for example, you may not have set out to be a teacher but you obviously enjoyed learning geography and decided teaching would be a great way to pass that passion on... whereas I think most PE teachers are just wannabe sports stars who never made it. That was my experience of PE teachers at school and in the school I worked in in Germany, plus all the schools I've ever visited... they just don't come across as people who are passionate about teaching; they just want to play sports and play them with people who are as good at them as they are...

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Zee

I think it's because, generally speaking, most PE teachers didn't set out to be PE teachers... whereas I think if you're like a geography teacher for example, you may not have set out to be a teacher but you obviously enjoyed learning geography and decided teaching would be a great way to pass that passion on... whereas I think most PE teachers are just wannabe sports stars who never made it. That was my experience of PE teachers at school and in the school I worked in in Germany, plus all the schools I've ever visited... they just don't come across as people who are passionate about teaching; they just want to play sports and play them with people who are as good at them as they are...

..hmmm, I'm not sure really, I know a few PE teachers and they all set out to teach PE from the beginning...it's a strange one really Zee..I think that using your comparison to a geography teacher..or say a history teacher..?...obviously there's good and bad there as well as in everything but of the ones that I know, there is a passion for their subject and if they're good at communicating and conveying that passion, then the children will feel it as well...and sport in general is something that people often are passionate about (some sports..) so it should work the same there as well but in my experience it somehow just doesn't...there just isn't the same enthusiasm conveyed...

[Apple202]

ive never had a bad report off even one subject

[Kyle]

I'll defend PE teachers. I tended to have a good rappor with mine. Ours tended to be a bit more liberal (I was often allowed to play football with a pair of Rangers FC shorts) and most lessons we always seemed to have a laugh. No other subjects could ever match that for me unless it was a final class of the year or something.

[LaLaLand]

I agree to a certain extent about PE teachers, we had 3 different ones and the 2 were hateful, really vile and they'd only been teaching a few years.

The horrible ones were gym and rugby, I loathed gym. Still makes me feel nervous thinking about it now actually, the horse and the wall bars. Being quite a big guy and a bit "awkward" as most are back then I just used to hate it, I used to try and get days off or "forget" my kit. When you think back you try and think "oh it was just me being stupid" but it really was horrendous!

The other guy though had been there for 20-odd years and he was the soundest bloke ever. He didn't believe that PE should be a planned out "this is what we're going to do today" thing. He basically used to say "If you want to do badminton, get the nets out and play, if you want to play tennis, go up to the courts, if you want to play footie go to the field". As long as you were doing some sort of activity he was happy and people respected him a lot more than the other two, I guess it was a two way thing. I used to love PE with him, the others... no.

[daniel-lewis-1985]

Our PE teacher always wore disgustingly small Kappa shorts where you could make out the bottom of his ball bag.

I think every school has their own teachers with a certain character ie awkward PE teacher or one that's like the terminator, an alcoholic and that one random obviously single woman with cats who teaches music or cooking.

[Z]

I think because there's an intolerance inherent in PE teachers for kids who aren't good at sports... whereas the same doesn't tend to exist in other subjects; history teachers want to inspire kids (again speaking in generalities here) to be passionate about history; PE teachers want kids to be good at sports and if they're not then they either don't care or they verge on bullying those kids for not being athletic... and often I think the saddest part is that with just a little bit of encouragement, so many kids who hated PE at school could have really enjoyed it if their teachers were more like the ones that the likes of Kyle mentioned up above...

[Jake.]

A PE teacher at my school was so anti-male that you had no chance with her if you was a boy, awful human being...

Generally though (in my younger years anyway) I was a bit of a book worm, always did as I was told, never had complaints and my reports came back positive. I think because I was sometimes bullied quite a bit, I became a bit of a teachers favourite. Then Secondary school came and as the years went by, I relaxed a bit more and didn't do as great as when I was younger... was still given great reports mind.

[bbfan1991]

I was practically a swot and got teased by people at School because I actually wanted to do well for myself , so got good comments from Teachers like ''he's a pleasure to teach or bright pupil who works hard etc''.

One thing I was guilty of was chatting too much and I did struggle in Maths and PE. Those two subjects were the ones I just didn't click with.

[lostalex]

I liked all of my male PE teachers and hated all of my female PE teachers, not sure why it worked out that way, but it did. I think all of them were lesbians, and just liked picking on the boys, even the gay boys.