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What are people's experiences with Teachers in the PE class and the PE class it self.
I had awful experiences with both P E itself as well as the teachers. I had great success with the swimming lessons and started training regularly when I was 8. I joined in the general P E as much as I could, which wasn't much, did run the wrm ups and mostly sat around while the rest of the kids layed ball. They didhave a blindy P E class in the afternoon and I sufferred through it until I was 14. Then I was preparing for the parallympics and training 6 to 8 times a week, in much better shape than any of my class mates, but me and my parents had to have at least 4 or 5 meetings with the teachers and principal because the late day P E blindy class they were going to force me into would've taken away one of the swim trainings. In addition to that one of the two teachers who taught the class had been a guide for our jr swim team to a swim meet the previous summer and she and her friends kept us up all night because they were drunk and loud, on top of that she was fat, smoked and stank of cigarettes and coffee constantly in class. The guy was a little better but just as uncompromising with regards to said class. I think they got a bitof extra money for taking it. I basically blankly refused to show up in class and had full backing of my swim coaches and parents and they eventually gave in.
I think P E teachers need to set an examplefor their students and you ahve to have a sliver of respect for them at least. If they are overweight or display unhealthy habits in front of gullable teengers they should be fired. In general I don't care about people's fitness when it comes to their jobs, but this is different, they not only teach P E but also should represent and exemplify healthy lifestyle, at least not do the opposite.
In high school I got a getoutof jail card immedaitely and never had to take any P E as long as I tained regularly.
Of course my situation was somewhat unique, and I understand the dilemma of blind people participating in P E, most of the things done there are highly visual, especially team sports. I think either a separate and comparible exercise pla needs to be devised for a blindie and an assistant assigned to him/her that can help and guide for running, biking, climbing or whatever is required, or the extracuricular sport that person engages in, if any, should be considered sufficient substitute for P E classes. We gain little to nothing by sitting around whilst our classmates play basketball, but of course we need to also appreciate physical work outs and well being as much as the next man.
cheers
-B
My PEwas great. I joined in with the rest of the group when it was practical, and did stuff with my support worker when it wasn't. That's how it should be for everybody.
it is for me this year. But the two years before it was extremely boring just because the teacher could not run. There was no one who would run with me and so I got stuck just walking around the track. For two years! The Waite room was another story. Nun of the things that were in there worked! I am glad I am in a new school this year.
PE sucked for me most of the time, too. Usually I would run warm-ups with the group, but then have to sit on the sidelines when they played ball and other such things. Most of the teachers were not very nice about it, or about acommodating me. There were a couple good teachers in there who were willing to work with me, but they never seemd to stay around long, always moved to different schools. LOL. However, when I was 13 and in eighth grade, I broke my collarbone while running laps with someone who'd never walked with me before, let alone run with me, and forgot she couldn't cut corners because she had someone on her right side. After that, I got a medical waiver out of PE for the rest of my school career.
I took adaptive PE my first year of high school because I didn’t know anything better. My senior year I took a Weight and Body class which was full of guys. I partnered up with somebody to run and if they were playing basketball I would do push ups and sit ups on the side so I would still get exercise. My teacher didn’t care so I brought music and had a good time in that class. We were in a decent Weight room for most of the week so I got a lot of exercise that semester.
It usually goes well, guaranteeing there is no substitutes and my vision teacher is there. So, I usually do what they do. Say they were doing basketball. My vision teacher would hit the hoop with my cane, and I'd try to shoot it up there. Only made two baskets, it never ends up there. When they played football. I'd stand maybe six to ten feet away from the fence and I'd be throwing the ball at the fence for the whole time or kicking it at the fence. I did some soccer things on the side too. I'd kick the ball, and I did dribble the ball.
I've never played in a game though, well, once. It was just this thursday in the pool, and they were trying to play this ball game. Half of the time I didn't know what I was doing, and my vision teacher wasn't there. So, at one point almost at the end, I decided to stand against the wall. Bad decision. The ball was near me, and a boy bumped in to me really hard. He hit my head, which hit the wall. Lucky it was fine. It could've been worse, though, I was really worried afterwards. I've heard about so many people having head injuries and all the internal bleeding stuff.
Yeah, I do warm ups too, and I'd go to the weight room, which my class rarely goes to, spin bike room, and row room.
well. I really hope that this time PE is better for the last few years at school. This PE class is just so much better then the last one. I don't do well in ball sports But I try them.
PE sucked huge donkey dick for me. I ran laps with my braillest for warmup, then just sat on my pretty little butt. There was the time my PE teacher in high school made me do volley ball serves with him, and that was great, except I had a sprained thumb. weights go well, doing the fitness test goes well.
I just moved in to an apartment complex with a basketball court so I love the cane hitting the hoop thing. I use to do that in my freshen year of high school.
Haha, Glad I could bring something to the table that helped you.
I remember those days. Most of the assistants I had in High School were ok but there were a couple idiots in te mix. One guy tended to run me into weight machines and claim they popped out of nowhere. Another guy used to take my cane while I was doing exercises and use it to pretend like he was having sex with me by poking me in...various places whenever he got an opportunity. He apparently thoght it was funny. And of course the teacher at the time tended to just let that go and grill me if I ever complained.
I was all prepared to start quoting Chuck D from Public enemy as I was thrown a curb on the acronym used here
I took APE during my sophomore year, and I have had strength training for my junior and senior years. My strength training teacher has to be one of the funniest guys you can meet. All my teachers have been great.
I actually heard about another way.
Connect a beeper to the basket hoop.
Haha, that teacher has wit...
I am still asking about a variety of other sports though. What I am interested to know about modifying is Le cross.
some of the stuff written of on here sound highly suspect, if not illegal. using a cane to pretend to have sex with someone? um? asult? i think so. fuckers.
I know and people tend to look the other way.
PE was great in elementary school. The coach and his other assistants helped out really well, snd some of the stuff, such as walking the balance beam, I did better than the other kids, and they could see it. Due to a shortage of electives, PE was waved for me in middle school, but in high school, I got a new V.I. teacher who was big on PE. I took it once in high school, since me being in varsity choir counted as a physical activity and supplemented the rest of my PE credits. I had help from two girls in the class. I was able to do what the other kids did.
PE worked out fine in elementary; I always had either an aid or another student to help me with walking/running, showing me how to do the exercises, and participating in most of the sports (mostly like kickball and things like that).
For the first year in middle school, I had one coach, but he had me work with the other coach who had me do some little exercises like stretches, dribbling/throwing a basketball (they had gotten a beeper for the basket and a belled basketball), just riding an exercise bike in the office, or sometimes I'd just play with one of those little floor things that is a square board on wheels. (I don't know whether I was supposed to do that last thing, but it was fun anyway. *smile*) For the exercises, she was there for that, and sometimes also for the basketball stuff, but for the other things, she'd have another student or students work with me and there was usually at least 1 other special needs student, so we'd take turns on the bike and riding that floor thing. I really didn't want to take PE again, but they made me take it on the third year (I think it was only for 1 semester though), and for that one I had the same coach (not the one that worked with me but the other one), and although I had a student aid off and on for that class, she was usually absent or whatever and so I didn't have to go to class for those times; I would just spend time in the councilor's office (usually not doing anything). The times that we did go to class though, we usually didn't end up doing anything anyway either. At first, I didn't see the point of dressing out because he rarely ever dealt with me anyway, but after a few times, he said I had to dress out, but even then, the aid and I usually didn't do anything, and I usually ended up going to sleep. (Most of what the other students regularly did was basketball or other fast-pace sports, so yeah.)
In high school, I had 2 coaches that were very good with me. One of them included me in the sports activities and almost everything else, and either she or another student would help me. And with the other coach, I had another blind student with me, so she would either have other students help us with what everyone else was doing, or she would have me and the other blind student walk around the track or use some exercise equipment in a little room off the gym. She would also sometimes work with us on some other exercises as well.
So I think my high school years were the best for PE, and elementary was alright also.
PE was a joke. I did wait training as my PE classes, but since I played football, Wrestled, and threw shot and disk the actual PE classes weren't very hard.
I just remember in elementary I didn't even run the mile. So, I walk the track and I couldn't in twenty-five minutes, so my teacher would say something and I was probably like "Yeah, I'll show you what slow is." So, I think my slowest mile time was 45 minutes (very sad)
Most ofmy elementary it basically sucked. I didn't really like sports so I was never enthusiastic about it even though I got people to run with me and help me if I needed. than I started to swim 15 - 20 hours a week and gym classe out of the question.
Wow, this post got brought back from the archives. *Smile* The one thing I forgot is that for awhile, I was on swim team, and they used that in substitute of PE class for me. During my time in high school where I had the medical waver out of it, I had to take extra wellness/nutrition classes to make up for it, and that's how I got my PE credit.
Interesting topic. I did the PE in my primary school with the rest of the class which was pretty fun, but the annoying thing was I had to do extra PE just with the special needs group. I thought that was pretty pointlesa. When I got to secondary shchool though, I was mostly with my support worker, which was quite fun doing different things, but for some reason I didn't really feel part of the class. I know it might sound strange, but ...
Until last year someone would help me but after I got hit in the head with a ball about 5 times in less than a week and someone ran into me and my glasses broke I don't do PE anymore.