Our son, Steve has taught some twenty five or so years and has seen various grade-level assignments; most have been at the high school level. This year is the first experience teaching physical education to youngsters K-through-4; he is enjoying the change and having both belly laughs and shocking moments. Shall we agree that this age group is pure, honest, candid and unfiltered.
His students never gave much thought to their PE teacher's name, they feel perfectly happy calling out..."Hey, Jim Teacher!" Well, one young lad just had to have more information. Steve often has his class sing songs during calisthenics. On 'Jim Teacher's August 29th birthday, Steve told the students they were to sing 'Happy Birthday' to him. About the moment the first words rang out, the boy hollered loudly, "Hey, Jim Teacher, you gotta real name to put in this song?"
A fourth grade girl recently walked up her PE teacher and said matter-of-fact, "Mr. Jim Teacher, this is a lot of crap!" Steve quickly responded, "What is your problem, you shouldn't talk like that?" The little girl said, "Hey, Jim Teacher, I'm getting sick and tired of tying these kids shoes; I liked it better when I didn't know how to tie shoes!" (There is some hidden message in that comment regarding talents and responsibility-expectations).
One first grade boy thought physical education classes outside should offer the opportunity to relieve oneself at a nearby bush, 'like me and my Dad do at home.' "You ain't never whized outside with your Dad, Jim Teacher," asked the boy.
A couple days ago, Steve's PE class was doing exercises and responding to alphabet letters by shouting out a word using the letters. For example: H...happy, Halloween, hurt, etc. The letter 'P' was tossed out for play and the following ensued: Popcorn, Peanuts and suddenly an inappropriate word was shouted out...this 'P' word was not followed by cat / willow or foot; however, the little boy insisted it was a good word because his father uses the word a lot.
As the late entertainer, Art Linkletter said, "Kids say the darndest things!"
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