Professionalism

Professionalism in PE has been at question in recent years, and rightfully so. We all know about the typical PE class and "GYM Teacher" who rolls out the balls and basically acts like a babysitter for 30-60 minutes at a time. Even though I am not employed at the time, working with other educators who may think we are inferiors, I still get comments from people on campus frequently about our professionalism. I am sick and tired of those comments and the mockery. It is hard for me to calmly defend our profession but that's what we have do it. We need to calmly educate people that we are indeed professionals and take our jobs seriously and that our profession is important. It is not the public's fault that PE has been tainted by years of the typical "GYM Teacher".