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CrispyQ

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12. She was the exception, not the rule.

Mon Jul 23, 2012, 01:34 PM

Jul 2012

My junior high PE instructor was not like that. She wasn't overly encouraging, but she wasn't mean. For the most part, most of the boys liked their PE instructors.

The mean one was also the only coach/PE teacher who didn't teach another class. The junior high girls PE instructor taught English. All the men coaches & PE teachers taught other classes, with the exception of one, who was also the Vice Principal of the school. I don't know if that would make a difference. I wonder what she would do if she taught math & her favorites in gym class weren't so smart at equations?

She'll never know how many girls she turned off to fitness & exercise because of her meanness. There were many of us who were relieved when we become juniors, because then PE was optional, not mandatory.

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An All Girls Camp . . . Disaster or Delightful? One Girl Spills the Truth [View all] redqueen Jul 2012 OP

Growing up in NYC I went to an all Girls Camp in the Catskills HockeyMom Jul 2012 #1

that was wrong and haev never heard anything like that. what absurd thinking. nt seabeyond Jul 2012 #5

that camp seems to be doing a very good job with the girls. seabeyond Jul 2012 #2

Girl Scout camp was a disaster for me. I didn't fit in and my tentmates actually GreenPartyVoter Jul 2012 #3

Wow, what nasty kids. redqueen Jul 2012 #7

thats pretty much kidds for you. they want to be around their friends loli phabay Jul 2012 #15

A Beetle Bailey comic book. *shrug* I didn't put up too much of a fight. I knew GreenPartyVoter Jul 2012 #17

i call that a win win loli phabay Jul 2012 #18

:^) GreenPartyVoter Jul 2012 #20

I would have loved that place! CrispyQ Jul 2012 #4

old Presidential fitness tests seabeyond Jul 2012 #6

She was the exception, not the rule. CrispyQ Jul 2012 #12

i do not know about awesome seabeyond Jul 2012 #14

I got rope burned in jr high because of a gym teacher like that Viva_La_Revolution Jul 2012 #8

that is horrible. i wonder what world i was in that i didnt see, or know, or experience this ugly seabeyond Jul 2012 #9

Ouch! CrispyQ Jul 2012 #13

Would the same perceived benefit of all-girls camp extend to all-girls classroom? n/t lumberjack_jeff Jul 2012 #10

Camp is a couple of months in the summer, and recreational... redqueen Jul 2012 #11

you know im kinda on the fence on this loli phabay Jul 2012 #16

I think I went to some kind of camp once ismnotwasm Jul 2012 #19