<DIV id=post_message_4094532>When I first came to my school in year seven, quite a few of my teachers already knew my sister and talked about her all of the time to me- how good a student she was etc... All of you with siblings in the same school as you will know that while this is annoying, it is just about bearable. Unfortunately, the one subject my sister wasn't very good in was PE..and the PE department were very familiar with her lack of enthusiasm for the subject. So when they found out who my sister was they just expected me to hate PE.
The thing is, I really like PE and wish to become a PE teacher when I'm older. So when I turned up to netball club, the teacher who ran it (also my head of year) was amazed. Needless to say, before even seeing me play she refused to put me on the team, and throughout the whole three years of me going, I never once got on the team :P She also instantly put me in the bottom group.
The one thing I could feel good about with regards to PE was football. This was because none of the PE department ran it, in fact a maths teacher did. When I went I wasn't seen as my sister's "younger sister", I could just play and not worry about what they were thinking. The PE department never focused on football, until this year, when a new teacher joined us and instantly became the head of department. She found out that we were interested in getting some matches and got us affiliated. She even asked me to get a team together and made me captain.
Anyway, I felt like this was finally my opportunity to prove myself, because I found something in PE I didn't feel inadequate in. So when my PE teacher came to me the other day and told me that there was a mtch on Wednesday I was really pleased, because it felt good to finally be on the team..etc... until I found out it clashes with my Geography field trip. Of course I have to go on the trip because it's for the GCSE coursework, but I thought maybe I could get to the school we're playing against in time. I was just about to explain this to my PE teacher, but all she heard was: "I'm going on a Geography trip". She took the letter she just gave to me out of my hand and said: "Well that's that then". I tried to explain that my teacher said they would drop me off on the way back but she wasn't listening and just shut the door in my face...
Anyway, I'm just worried that the one opportunity I had to prove I'm not entirely worthless is down the pan. The look she gave me when I said I couldn't come.. and what made it worse was that all of the other PE teachers- including my head of year, were there too. And they all gave me the same look, like why was I making such a big deal out of possibly getting back, they'd just find someone else.</DIV>
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