{"id":4709,"date":"2006-02-17T21:41:04","date_gmt":"2006-02-17T21:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4709"},"modified":"2025-09-24T04:02:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T04:02:58","slug":"long_ago_i_taug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4709","title":{"rendered":"Long ago, I taught Phys. ed. for a year, but I never thought of this angle!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a funny article from the Washington Post Fla. Teacher Charged as Children Pay to Cut Gym<\/a> . The culprit is now facing felony charges, which is not so funny.<\/p>\n

I actually taught "Gym" for a year – my last year in the Caribbean. But I never thought to take money in return for letting kids off gym.<\/p>\n

It was our second year in the Cayman Islands, about 1980. The first year I had taught science in the big government high school on Grand Cayman. But the second year they needed someone to take a half schedule for phys. ed and they asked me. I said "sure I can teach soccer and cricket and netball" and that was that. <\/p>\n

So we lived half a mile from the high school. And 200 yards from the beach – and a half mile from Eden Rock dive site, as well as several other excellent sites. I (being a phys. ed. dude) had to wear shorts to school (in the Tropics – great!) and rode my bike over, while Brigid took the car to the grammar school across town where she taught first grade. Across town being two miles.<\/p>\n

It was our last year living in the Caribbean (my fourth year in the Islands, and Brigid’s seventh), and it was a great year. Lots of scuba diving, lots of rugby, lots of travel. BUT, I wasn’t much of a cricket coach.  <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a funny article from the Washington Post Fla. Teacher Charged as Children Pay to Cut Gym . The culprit is now facing felony charges, which is not so funny. I actually taught "Gym" for a year – my last year in the Caribbean. But I never thought to take money in return for letting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9799,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709\/revisions\/9799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}