Is it common protocol in your district that if you teach PE you must also coach and not necessarily just football? At least at the middle and high school levels?
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- Thread starter JoeDear-Tay
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In Ampipe, being a PE teacher does not require you to also coach. Can you be a PE teacher and a coach? Sure, but it aint no requirement.
Can confirm in at least one district here in MO that PE teachers are not required to coach.
Sometimes they stop coaching but do not stop teaching. It does make it a little tougher sometimes filling a coaching vacancy. That is one thing that some people fail to understand, there might be a coach you would like to hire but there is not a teaching position open to match what they can teach. It can make things difficult.
Normally when hired they coached also, but for whatever reasons over the years they may no longer be coaching but are tenure so they just stay. PE jobs are hard to come by.
Gotta remember, there are a ton of nerds in central office that never played a sport and don’t understand the importance of athletics in a community and school. Ditto for elem admin.
My Class 5 football school in SWMO requires all PE teachers to coach 2 sports even if they have no experience in the sport that they have been assigned...If they are tenured and don't coach 2 sports, they are moved somewhere else.
Another way to put that is unfortunately it's not a priority.
I'm not exactly concerned with softening a message, especially on a message board. But yes, saying the same thing. One just offers the root cause.
Again, my only issues is some of them have already been relieved of one coaching position...So do you really want them coaching another sport that they don't really want to be there.
I don't disagree at all that I think if you are a PE teacher you should be coaching, heck that's why most went in to PE in the first place. But realty is it don't always work out that way and it might not be good for those kids in those sports.
Just to add a different perspective, I'm at a school of about 600 students in southeast Iowa. PE teachers are not required to coach here. At the HS we have 3 PE teachers. One is the head football coach and assistant track coach. One is the head track coach and also the head cross country coach. The third doesn't coach anything and neither do either middle school PE teachers. In fact, I heard from a good source that coaching didn't even come up in the interview for our newest middle school hire.
In Texas, I know oftentimes your coaching job is tied to your teaching job and that contract includes a requirement to coach a second sport. But, as I'm sure you all know, Texas high school football is a different world.
In Texas, I know oftentimes your coaching job is tied to your teaching job and that contract includes a requirement to coach a second sport. But, as I'm sure you all know, Texas high school football is a different world.
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