Perry

Lapp

Perry

Lapp

Perry

Lapp

Doc, when you startod to talk about what students expect to get
from their physical education classes you said the exports talked about
character edueation and teeching boy and girls to become good sportse
How does this fit into the picture?

In the study, the argunent for gymnasium classes, that "gym will
teach you “so be & good sport”, was included among the 40 reasons for tak-
ing gymnasium work and the porcentage of answers is of interost. In
school A in 2 town of 2200 people the gymnasium classes are taught by a
man and he conducts the classes for both the boys end the girlse In this
school the teacher tried to be a good spert in all his dealings with the
studonts, but he did not preach sportsmanship, Ninety-one per cent of
his boys thought they learned to bé good sports and 89% of the girls
thought the same. Nino out of 10 of every boy and girl in the high school
thought they learned to be good sperts.

Doc, that is a pretty good averagee —

Yos, that is a good average. Tho results in the other schools were
not as uniform. School B located in a town of 15,000 vetoed somewhat
differently} 47% of the boys thought they learned to be good sports, while
90% of the girls in the same schoel thought they w ere learning about
sportsmanship. If this were the only way of judging, one would say School
B had a better teacher for the girls than they had for the boyse While
jin school C in a town of 27,000 the figures were about reversed = the boy's
teacher scored 93% and the girl's teacher 67% on the good sport issuee The
fourth school involved in this study was from a city with a population of
150,000 and the scoro was about even on the good sport issue; 89% of the
boys and 85% of the girls seemed to think it was taught in gymnasium
classess And if you will stop and recall, this was the tep reason listed
by the girls for taking gymnasium classes and was ranked 5th by the boyse

While I was looking over the porcentages in this study of pupil
objectives, I noticed only one 100% rating. If I remember correctly it
was in school C.

Yes, we have only one 100% item in the study and you are correct
about it being school C, If I wero that teacher I would trade a month's
salary for that compliment, Before I tell you about the item let me tell
you about the teacher whose boys ranked the item so highly. It happens
that of the seven teachers whose boys and girls participated in this
questionnaire study, I am personally well acquainted with six of theme
The instructor in toys physical education in school C was a classmate
of mine and he comes nearer to being a perfect gentleman than anyone I
have over met. Usually under stress a person will say or do something
that will let his friends or associates know that all does not go smooth-
ly within their mental and physical self. Not so with this teacher. He
always was a gentleman a nda good studont. Apparently his boys alse
had the same reaction as I because they voted 100% that gymnasium classes
will promote the cevelopment of students into ladies and gentlemen". I
may also add that the superintendent of a iarge Illinois public school
system must alss have agreed with the boys and myself for the teacher in