Where I live, all the PE teachers are (were?) psychopaths.
The worst teacher I can ever remember having was Mr. Lee (not his real name). He was underweight, a tacky dresser, and about 60 years old (by the end). He was also the only PE teacher in our elementary school, and thus we were all forced to have him seven years in a row.
I dunno if we ever took tennis in elementary, but believe me, Mr. Lee was bad enough to make anybody in our class act like
John McEnroe.
Consider this exchange during the volleyball unit. I walk up to him.
Mr. Lee: "What?"
Me: "Can I go to the bathroom?"
Mr. Lee: "Go and play with your partner."
Me: "I just wanted to go to the bathroom, because, like--"
Mr. Lee: (simultaneously) "Hello! HELLO! [my name]!!"
Me: "Uuuugh." (There was really no time for me to say anything else.)
Mr. Lee: "[my name]! I'm only gonna say this once. Go. Practise. Your. Volleys."
They say he retired a couple of years after I left school. More likely, he was unceremoniously ejected from the staff in front of the entire school district.
After I left elementary school, I had thought it was over. But no... as soon as I entered junior high, I came face to face with another psycho, Mr. Jones (again, a made-up name). If Mr. Lee was Evice, Mr. Jones was definitely Greevil!
Mr. Jones always used to set up these so-called "Blasts", which were basically 2 or 3 K of running followed by a quarter hour of stupid stuff like towel crunches and ball squats. Even worse, I was starting to suspect he was to blame for the horrible schedule we received in Grade 7. About once a week we always had to do PE, followed by English (often including an essay question, and the classroom didn't have any windows), and then French (again, notes and no windows, only this time in a foreign language).
In February 2007, the whole class was anticipating a Monday snow day; we planned to have a blizzard blow in over the weekend. You might have guessed it -- the blizzard just grazed us, but it wasn't enough to close the school. All the kids were sent in.
Half an hour --
half an hour -- after I woke up, I could have been dreamily snoozing again or at least fragging my enemies in Halo 2 or Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Instead, I was sitting on a cold gym floor at school, excruciatingly tired, looking up at Mr. Jones for the results of our latest Blast. What do you know... facing the whole class, he pointed his thumb vigorously downward, accompanied by a spitting noise and a shaking of his head. He proceeded to tell us "That sucked.
Sucked." My final mark for Grade 7 PE was 88.5%, my lowest ever.
No wonder.