I was the best kind of teachers pet in school. For I did my work, got good grades, followed all the rules (never once getting detention or discipline of any kind), was helpful when asked but was not a suck up. But I was not a teachers pet in Junior High PE. Now I love sports, the only problem is we never did any sports I liked in Junior High. The problem was that both the girls PE coaches were competitive runners, doing marathons often. They were under the delusion that everyone else loved to run as well. I guess that is why our Track and Field Unit lasted most of my 8th grade year. We also ran the mile every Friday...in AZ heat, when I had 7th hour...that's right, the peak of the heat. Plus they were insane to think that we could all run a mile quickly. You could not get an A if you did not run in 6:30 or less. Um, yeah, I was around the 8 minute and something mark. This body was not built for running. So needless to say I did a lot of extra credit work to keep my grade up in that … [Read more...]