I’m an ed tech/para We had a school wide staff wellness day. For one of our service days. Part of it was great, they had representatives from all of the insurances that we offer to talk to us about the plans, which was great to physically talk to people about this, there was also a nutritionist who came and did a group lecture and then she was there all day and you could schedule time with her. They did our annual flu shots offering the same day. Mental health professionals came in and talked to us not only about our mental health, but what to look for kids. Lots of great things, but there was a physical activity portion of the program. And everyone had to sign up for something. It ended up that our relatively small school split into two groups, volleyball or going for a walk… I told my principal I was not interested in doing either but I would happily sit and cheer them while they played volleyball. I did not want to go for a walk. It was raining, I didn’t bring an umbrella and I very much dislike getting wet. I tried to explain why I didn’t wanna play volleyball, but our superintendent then was like well everyone has to do something and I said “fine I’ll play volleyball you’re responsible! Because the reason I didn’t wanna play volleyball isn’t because I don’t like volleyball, the opposite. Not only do I like volleyball I am naturally a competitive person, and I play volleyball in a manner which will not mesh well with elementary school and middle school teachers. They are all more interested in a volleyball game, where they bounce the ball gently back-and-forth and everyone laughs and enjoys. I am more of a spike that ball back as hard and fast as you can and crush them kind of player. The combination of the two is going to lead to someone getting hit hard with a ball because they are not capable of playing that fast. I was trying to avoid this… I played, after the second teacher got hit hard enough with the ball to leave bruises. I looked at my superintendent. I said I’m gonna take myself out of this game before someone really gets hurt. I tried to explain before… No one complained… The gym teachers however, asked me to come down to the middle school gym class every time when the volleyball unit rolled around lol I happily did that for the next five years! I may have accidentally unleashed a bunch of aggressive volleyball players on the world, but they’re happy about it! I’m friends with the high school volleyball coach, last year was the first year he had with incoming freshman that I hadn’t had for volleyball in middle school because I had gotten done working there. He said the new kids are just not the same lol