PE teachers can wreck your health. Dr Anne Elliott found that bad experiences in school PE actively deterred people from taking exercise in later life & led to a state of alienation from their own bodies. http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/22163/
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There was a crew of savvy girls who knew the exact spot where you could break off the cross country course, nip over into the graveyard for a fag, then rejoin the course further along on the other side
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One of them - Alison F, God love her - even showed me the proper technique for hiding matches under the bra strap in such a way that they did not rattle & give the game away. Not something I ever had occasion to use but I appreciated the confidence
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Anyway, though catharsis is satisfying, I think the important point of Dr Elliott's research is that people who suffered corporeal disassociation as a result of school PE can still be helped to enjoy exercise in later life through bespoke training
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Lots of you in the same situation it seems. This is the least isolated I've felt all lockdown
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Don't reeeeeaalllly want to talk about my own PE teachers except to say that the decent one is still decent & the psychopath was not in the job for long; there are Stories about why & how his employment ended
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He tried to pick me up, when he was no longer working at our school. Offered to take me 'for a shandy' in his car. Mm hmm.
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