The plot for the next Harry Potter movie has been leaked, and we've got it: All hell breaks loose at Hogwarts when new instructor Tamara Tootle is caught taking bribes from students to skip PE. No, wait ... that's real, actually.
A former Ernest Ward Middle School physical education teacher who solicited bribes from students will sit out of the education system for at least three years. Tamara B. Tootle, the second Ernest Ward teacher to be accused of charging her students $1 a day to skip P.E. class participation, pleaded no contest Wednesday to six felony counts of third-degree bribery.
We don't know about you, but a buck to sit out pointless calisthenics and a dodgeball in the crotch in the freezing cold would have been one sweet deal when we were in school, even considering inflation. The woman was providing a service, OK? It's worth a dollar a day just for the endless fun of saying her name.
It's the Florida Educational system's solemn vow: No Child Left Behind For Free.
Teacher Took Bribes, Gets Probabtion [Pensacola News Journal]








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this would explain all the fat kids in most midwest states, but florida?
Tamara B. Tootle totally sounds like the name of a Hogwarts professor!
Where's Andie when I need a fellow Harry Potter lover?
pe is for suckers
That it is. Where the hell was this woman when I was in middle school?
Andie has done what to Harry Potter?
Come on, dodgeball was awesome. Come to think of it, I really miss gym class.
I loved PE, but only in high school - we went out to Central Park almost every day! I enjoyed it so much, I even went when I was exempt (due to having a soccer match that night).
I would have paid a $2
I LOVE HARRY POTTER!
(dammit, I've said too much again).
Yeah it was always great to be the chubby kid nobody passed the ball to. Time of my effing life. I would have paid just not to have to take a shower at school.
I loved dodgeball. My nickname in junior high was "Nerd Hunter."
Those lucky stiffs, I have to pay people a dollar to throw stuff at my crotch.
For a dollar a day you can feed a starving child in Africa...or keep your fat ass. Your choice.
What exactly is a 'burpee'?
Tamara Tootle needs to move to Long Island.
Back in high school we looked up teachers salaries online (public record) and found gym teachers making 100k+.
When I see "Florida" and "middle school teacher," recent events have conditioned me to think only one thing: "is she hot?"
Gym was a good time. I was always the kid who didn't look like he was good as sports but always ended up with TD, goal, or whatever.
And Tamara Tootle? Seriously? Maybe she was saving up enough money to change to freakin' name....
What the fuck is a Harry Potter? Sounds kind of like Space Docking.
a woman PE teacher? I don't believe it. I bet she can get any man that she wants.
Those kids are lucky. When I was young you had to blow your teacher to get something from them. Stupid Catholic school.
I love Harry Potter as well.
When I was in HS, we had the exact same number of white kids and Mexicans in our class, therefore we would always play "Whites vs. Browns." Surprisingly, our teacher saw nothing wrong with this.
This was part of Jeb Bush's pilot project to address low teacher pay.
Loving Harry Potter?
I should think that's my area of expertise.
I was very economical: I made sure to take band every year which made you exempt from gym.
Now how cool is that??? Oh, yea, band... damn...
A gym class. Our short, balding, teacher wore tight Spalding matching top-bottom sweat suits that caused him to be dubbed Donnie Nuts.
I would pay $1 dollars just to get back into a PE class….$2 dollars if it was a Dodgeball day....and $3 dollars for the giant earth ball volleyball game.
Ever see the documentary "Year of the Bull"? They teach dry cleaning in Florida High Schools - maybe this woman was just preparing them for a life of bribing cops.
i would also like to know what a Burpee is.
UM, how were you able to snag an invite to Agent Zero's lavish party tonight?
Our gym teacher in high school was an ex-arena league qb. Needless to say, we played arena football about 7 months out of the year, with him on one team. Fucking awesome.
I'm fortunate enough to know someone with the hookup. My buddy just picked up our cards...I can't wait to see mine.
blurpee is a big fat black guy
Is Willie back?
Seniors at my hs had bowling for gym class. It was badassed!
oh how I miss Murderball.
I echo the Great Vizzini. Is Tamara hot?
If so, pstpixplzkthnx.
I was very economical: I made sure to take band every year which made you exempt from gym.
I was in band as well CN, but at my school we had to take PE once a week. Fucking school officials.
Denis Lemieux - I had a female gym teacher in grade school and I'm pretty sure no guys wanted her, but I'm also pretty sure the feeling was mutual.
I didn't even think they still played dodgeball nowadays. Talk about a lawsuit waiting to happen...
"Nothing in the world smells like that...The smell, you know, the smell of the Mercurochorme the school nurse puts on the strawberry the fat kid with the glasses has on his knee...smells like victory..."
Both of my bosses got tickets to the Hibachi's party. As they are both 40ish, nerdy white guys, they'll fit right in.
I loved gym class. In HS we played ping pong and learned CPR. Even the fat kids could keep up.
this party is gonna be the balls
I was in band as well CN, but at my school we had to take PE once a week. Fucking school officials.
NY has minimum phys ed requirements, or at least did when I was in school... I think you had to have something like at least two days a week of gym. So not only would band not get you out of gym class, but my school's policy was that nothing got you out of gym. Play on a varsity team that practices every day of the week? You're still doing Project Adventure.
In searching for pics it seems that her middle name might possibly be Babette, and she may have at one point filed an "injunction for protection against domestic violence".
Anyway, I always thought of gym class as school sanctioned ogling of the opposite sex.
Debra LaFave charged her students $1 to fuck her in the backseat of her car. And my girlfriend says I'm cheap?
Florida is hell's waiting room. All the bad shit that happens, happens in Florida. I think heat attracts the assholes.
And if you live there, I'm very sorry if I've offended you. Want to buy a condo in Sarasota?
A burpee is a calisthenic move. There are a couple of variations. In the bootcamp class I teach occasionally, we do it this way:
1. Start standing.
2. Crouch down, placing your hands at pushup width...kick your legs out behind you so you're in pushup position.
3. Do a pushup.
4. Pull your feet back up so you're in a crouch.
5. Jump as high as you can, bringing your hands over your head and clapping.
6. Land and repeat.
Obviously it's all done without resting at any point.
Variations include doing it with a pullup (you do the move under a pullup bar, obviously), without the pushup or jump, etc. It doesn't sound bad, I know. Do as many as you can in 2 minutes and see if you don't throw up before getting to the full 2 min.
Burpees
No thanks, the only I do until I throw up is drink.
44 - you get the shaft. My senior year we had PE 4 days week, but during the soccer season I almost never had to go (practice 3 days a week, game once a week).
44 - what borough did you go to HS in?
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I think Will killed Nibbles. That or it was the Berman post.
Alabama requires one year of PE in high school, with no subsitutions (like band or etc) - they actually had a separate PE class, boys and girls together, for the kids coming over from the gifted magnet school. And even in that group, I was physically worthless. I can't lift anything heavier than money or whiskey anymore.
My favorite thing in gym class was floor hockey. If I could skate, I would've played real hockey. It was fun, and I liked the fact that I was able to check people into the walls under the guise of 'going for the ball.'
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they actually had a separate PE class, boys and girls together, for the kids coming over from the gifted magnet school.
Mine was even better. We had a separate PE class for the 20 or so kids who were in the accelerated science/math program. But gym classes usually have about 30 kids, so they needed to fill some slots. Who did they put in there with us? That's right, the ESL/Special Ed kids. And I don't mean the ESL kids and the Special Ed kids... I mean the kids that were both. Fun times.
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