Holy Crap

[annundriel]

OMG you guys, a girl very probably broke her nose during dodgeball today.

Which totally confused me, since the balls we were using were kind of like Nerf balls only maybe a little softer. I found out from the school secretary at the end of the day that one of the boys had bent to get a ball and she got hit with his head when he straightened back up.

The swelling had gone down by the time I saw her again in the office 6th period and it didn't look too bad. She was still in tears, but heading out to get it looked at.

Geeeeez.

Also, who knew there were like fifty bazillion ways to play dodgeball?

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[jack-infinitude.livejournal.com]

..Thank God it's Friday?

[mclachlan.livejournal.com]

Okay, am I a horrible person for laughing?

[annundriel.livejournal.com]

Hahaha. Well. Some guy got nailed in the groin (or very close to it) and dropped like a fly while I laughed my ass off on the sidelines. So maybe we're both horrible people.

[annundriel.livejournal.com]

Seriously! I've had fun with the kids (mostly) and only one person got seriously injured, but I'm ready for the weekend.


Also, I love your icon! And the picture it's taken from. Oh, cast. <3

[jack-infinitude.livejournal.com]

Only one? :D

*smishes them*

[annundriel.livejournal.com]

Only one! More than that may have cried...

Or bled...

Or needed an ice pack...

I'm so happy I'm not a middle schooler anymore. :D

[jack-infinitude.livejournal.com]

Middle school. OhGod. *hides from bad memories*

[annundriel.livejournal.com]

Aw. My memories of middle and high school are pretty good. I just kinda...got along with everybody.

But it's such an awkward age! And subbing PE reminded me how much I HATED PE. Enough that I am apparently blocking some of it out, if you ask my parents.

[jack-infinitude.livejournal.com]

Lucky you who gets to have good memories. D: D: D: D: D: D: D:

It is such an awkward age! I feel sorry for the whole human race because we all have to go through it. And seriously, what is the point of PE past elementary school? Have you ever heard any justification for it?

[annundriel.livejournal.com]

:( ::HUGS:: They aren't all good. There are some things about my senior year of high school that I will probably be bitter over for a long time to come. One of those "I can forgive but I can't forget" kinda cases.

Physical fitness? I honestly don't know! Although talking with the other PE teacher today, he said that what the kids were really doing during games was improving their ability to follow instructions and socialize in a competitive setting. Or something. Which makes sense to me up to a point because some of those kids seriously need more opportunities to work out how to deal with other people and their own emotions regarding other people. (Do not chuck a ball at someone's head just because he accidently hit you in the face.)

Otherwise...I get that fitness is important and that PE is the only place where some of these kids are going to get that or learn about it, but I feel for those kids who aren't interested in sports or who aren't actively inclined because I was one of them. Especially when you get teachers who are relentless and push, imo, too hard.

I wish schools were able to offer a variety of PE options, like electives. I really enjoyed my weight lifting class. And I chose that because we wouldn't be running all the time, which I hate.

[jack-infinitude.livejournal.com]

For me, it's just that it was a long, never ending grind of having to be polite to people I hated. I can't tell you how relieved I was when I realized that I really had graduated high school, and that I never had to see any of them again. ::HUGS BACK:: College is great though. :)

Hmm. I hadn't actually realized there was a social aspect to it. The lessons plans must be interesting.

but I feel for those kids who aren't interested in sports or who aren't actively inclined because I was one of them.

THIS, hahaha. It's a little sad to say, but my junior high had big plans for electives...which went out with the new principle. So everyone just ran, all the time. I'm sure we did other stuff, but I honestly can't remember.

[annundriel.livejournal.com]

There were about 70 people in my graduating class and I knew a good deal of them from kindergarten onward. And, I dunno, it was like the smart kids were also the athletic ones were also in band/choir/drama so I just kind of...floated between groups depending on what class I was in and where the seating arrangment put me.

College is so much better, though. Or 'was', in my case. And I'm glad to hear you think so, too. :) I miss it. (But not the stress.)

I think the lesson plans might get thrown out the window occasionally. Like watching the kids today...if they behaved, during warm-ups, they got to do something fun like we had promised. But so many of them just will not pay attention or stop talking or be respectful so you can't teach them something fun to do because they won't listen to you long enough. Which is just frustrating. One group of about six boys seemed to actually have perfected the art of doing nothing, including anything to be punished for. (Though two of them were suspended for their gang clothing.)

I HATED the running. I still hate the running. I lived in terror of those days when we'd go to the track and run the mile. Ugh.

[jack-infinitude.livejournal.com]

Hee. :) You knew pretty much everyone then, huh? I think that's neat.

College is amaaaaazing~~ I actually dig the stress a little bit, because it means I actually have to work. Which is a new concept for me, high school being stupidly easy.

If only the denial of fun worked as a punishment, though. It doesn't last any longer than the day, and they're back to their usual selves. There's no reaching children when they're at this age, they're too full of themselves (and hormones but that's something separate.) That is so sad about the suspensions. D: I hope those kids were just showing off instead of being involved in something dangerous.

Running is just so boring! I'm glad there are people who love the movement of it, the training and the power, but what about the kids who don't love it? What are they supposed to do!? </ epic grrrr> (Because the ones who don't love it are going to be the worst at it. Which means you have at least half the class dragging behind with bad times, which shows up as part of their grade, which shows up on the state record, which reflects badly on the coaches. I have yet to hear of anyone in the state of Texas who is willing to come up with ways to improve PE programs for those students who don't want to be involved in sports. And there are quite a few of those students.)

[annundriel.livejournal.com]

The stress wouldn't get me too much until after something was turned in. Or, oh, the last quarter of my senior year when I had big research papers due, financial aid exit-things to do, pack to move out, etc. That got a little crazy. But isn't it nice to finally get an educational challenge?

If only the denial of fun worked as a punishment, though. It doesn't last any longer than the day, and they're back to their usual selves.

That's exactly the problem. And the peer pressure angle doesn't really work either. "Don't cause problems and ruin the fun for your classmates because they'll be mad at you." Doesn't really do anything.

I wish the kids that were suspended were just showing off, I really do. But they very probably weren't. There's an increasing gang problem in our area, which is both frightens and saddens me.

Running is just so boring!

AGREED. I think if the kids who didn't like running were less afraid that they'd have to do it for 10 minutes, they'd relax and enjoy PE. I know I would have.

[jack-infinitude.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, that'll be me at the end of May, freaking out and trying to get all my shit together... But yes, the academic challenge is the whole reason I wanted to do college. I want to actually learn something as opposed to churning out the same stuff by rote.

I was a well-behaved kid, and I even I snorted at that one. Part of it to is that kids don't want to respond to authority, for various reasons. They don't see the advantage in discipline, and for whatever reason it isn't being taught to them.

And that...is not cool about the gang problem. It's the same in my part of the city (though campus security is pretty amazing about keeping it out).

It all comes down to two key words: air conditioning. We would have been happy to run the mile if we had been allowed to do it inside. But we had to be out in the 90 degree heat, and while that's fairly good walking weather, it is terrible running weather.

[annundriel.livejournal.com]

One of the things I loved about college was that, despite the fact I grew up with many of the people I graduated with in high school, I had so much more in common with the university English department. Things just clicked into place and I could use words like "puerile" in a sentence and not have everyone wonder what I was talking about. (Really. I used to call people that in high school because no one else could spell it and so couldn't look it up. But then it was on the PSATs in one of those and all of my friends at least got that question right.)

Part of it to is that kids don't want to respond to authority, for various reasons.

And don't I know it. You can blow your whistle and call class to order as much as you want, and you're still going to have at least one kid who just does not care. Or maybe not "does not care," but feels the need to push the boundary to see how far they can go. Who knows why. No attention at home? The wrong kind of attention at home?

The gang problem freaks me out a bit. Hearing the activity report from the police chief on a regular basis doesn't always help.

Oh, man. I hated when they'd make us run near the end of school. 90 degree heat is horrible by itself, but then it reflects off whatever black stuff our track is made out of and uuuugh.

[jack-infinitude.livejournal.com]

Things just clicked into place and I could use words like "puerile" in a sentence and not have everyone wonder what I was talking about.

THIS! THIS A THOUSAND TIMES! For the teachers and the students both! I don't have to dumb down my conversation! I can reference Monty Python and get a laugh! I can use words like "pontification" and "sophistry" and don't get weird looks!

:( That's really tragic about the gangs. Those poor, stupid kids, they don't know what they're doing.

We had to do the running all year round, ahahaha. Once a week, we were out on the track...bleh. XD

[annundriel.livejournal.com]

Oh, I got seriously lucky with teachers (and classmates, come to think of it). When the Lord of the Rings films came out, I was in high school and my math teacher (who I'd had for...four years) was a HUGE GEEK about it. So we'd sit there in class and be Tolkien dorks and everyone else would be like, "Whaaat?" and he would be like, "You don't need to know." (I lovingly gave him the nickname "Evil Dark Lord" and my mother told him about it. He prided himself in that the rest of the year and all the other teachers were jealous.)

I remember one time I entered the room with, "Mr. P, your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries" and he just played along. Those were good times.

But some of my fellow students! OMG. A lot of them were good, but some of them were just...just... ::shakes head:: Hopelessly full of fail.

We had to do the running all year round

We did, too. Washington state gets both extremes weather-wise, so in the cold months they just made us run around the gym.

[jack-infinitude.livejournal.com]

THAT IS AMAZING. \O/ So much win!

(Oh God, I know exactly what you mean. I actually feel sorry for them on some level, because they don't know how to appreciate geek stuff.)

It's actually nice to run in cold weather -- in that, oh-god-my-lungs-hurt-this-is-what-bronchitis-feels-like way.