400-pound, 44-year-old student who wants to be gym teacher sues Michigan college for weight discrimination after it rejected his application

Not the Bee ^ | 12/28/23 | Miser Retrops

[DallasBiff]

Well if my gym teacher weighed 400 pounds, we would throw kickballs at him.

[Jonty30]

I had a co-worker working towards being a gym teacher of junior high students. His interest was more into the junior high students than teaching course.

[ClearCase_guy]

Clown Planet

[Magnum44]

I see large student loan debt with a useless degree in this guys future...

[ProtectOurFreedom]

He’s looking for a big PAYDAY!!

[HYPOCRACY]

Maybe he’s 9 feet tall.

[Jonty30]

If he lies down, sure.

[NorthMountain]

for some strange reason, no news outlet has a picture of the dude.

[cyclotic]

He’ll be one of those guys calling Dave Ramsey in five years about having $300,000 in student loans, a $50,000 car, $85,000 in credit card debt and a $35,000 a year job.

[lee martell]

Still looking for a sufficiently wide lens.

[Leaning Right]

> I see large student loan debt with a useless degree in this guys future... <

Yes, indeed. Colleges are churning out way more Phys. Ed. teachers than are needed. If you don’t want to work in a complete hell hole, you’ve got to either be very lucky or know someone in the school board (or both).

[Responsibility2nd]

Well, I’m not a fat black overweight lesbian.

Who can I sue for not being a Chicago mayor, a Harvard president or even the DIE director of a major corporation?

[lee martell]

Even if he were very fit, it wouldn’t do having a student teacher conduct his gym class virtually. Much of the learning in gym comes not just by playing ball games, but by learning proper socialization with peers.
A teacher needs to be physically on sight to notice unsportsmanlike behavior and do something about it right awa.

[billorites]

Those who can...do.
Those who can't...teach.
And those who can't teach...teach gym.

[pfflier]

I see large student loan debt with a useless degree in this guys future...

That's the first half of the story. The second half is, it all gets paid off, with interest, after he gets done cleaning out the pockets of the school systems for discrimination.

[V_TWIN]

I did have one in junior high that was at least 350.....even at 14 years old I had a really hard time taking him seriously.

[CarolinaPeach]

Does diameter count?

Peach

[dfwgator]

Reminds of Mark Mangino, the former Kansas head football coach, who must have weighed at least 400 pounds.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

[metmom]

I had a very obese gym teacher in jr high.

NOBODY had any respect for her and no one felt she had any right to tell us how to be healthy.