The story of Terence Braxton, the Florida middle school gym teacher who allegedly let children bribe him with $1 to skip gym class, is very easy to understand. What’s confusing is that other lame brain gym teachers hadn”t tried it before.

Let’s face it, being a jr. high school teacher must suck. Even worse if you are the gym teacher and all day long you listen to little sh*ts bag on you about being too tired, lazy, etc. to paricipate in class. You know that one day they’ll all be fat and the whole thing becomes an exercise in futility. Then you hit upon an idea…a win-win idea.

You offer to take a dollar from anyone that does not want to participate in class. You theory is that they would probably just spend the money on junk food anyway so the dollar not spent on junk food probably equates to the same amount of calories they would have burned off in gym. Plus you are making a little money that isn’t costing the taxpayers a dime. You’re happy. The kids are happy and no is getting hurt. Heck, since the kids are happier not having gone to gym they might even do better in their other classes. Maybe they’ll even take the time they are not in gym to study and become doctors and lawyers. You feel good about yourself and wonder why you didn’t think of this before. Life is good.

But your world will soon be crashing down. These are middle school kids for God’s sake. What makes you think they can keep a secret like this? Jr. High kids couldn’t keep a secret if their lives depended on it and in this case it’s your life not theirs at stake. It was just a matter of time. Most of them probably have been bragging on My Space about bribing a teacher from day one. Furthermore, what is the likelihood that stuffy, out-of-touch administrators are going to understand your little win-win system? Even worse those damn parents are going to get their panties in a wad as if one hour of gym were going to cure little Johnnie’s morbid obesity. You are going to be arrested. You are going to go to jail. All because you tried to work within the system to the benefit of all.

Sources: ESPN

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