In my school, people liked the gym teachers because they were the football or soccer coaches. But look, if they're cool, they get respect.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Sport was an integral part of school life. The most influential teachers were not necessarily the PE teachers, but the teachers who helped me in sport because they had an understanding of what you were going through.
Teachers are expendable, overworked, underpaid, and many times disrespected by students, parents and higher-ups. Nonetheless, these teachers still show up because there are some who are teachers indeed.
Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they've taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.
Often times the public school teachers are ridiculed or they are made to feel inferior but this is really undeserved.
I've always admired teachers for their patience and purpose in choosing their profession.
Athletes are very cool to me.
I had a classic gym teacher in junior high who wore a weightlifter's belt all the time.
I've never been one of the cool people at school, but then again, I don't get the people who are cool. It's not that I don't like them, it's just that they don't interest me.
I think more and more respect has been accorded to teachers, and quite rightly so.
Gym class was, of course, where the strongest, best-looking kids were made captains and chose us spazzes last. More important, it was where the figures of supposed authority allowed them to do so. Forget the work our parents did molding our minds and values. Everything fell apart as soon as we put on those maroon polyester gym suits.