In my experience, gym teachers are bullies. I never had one that wasn't. But the absolute worst was my junior high gym teacher. She was mean. The worst thing about her was that if you didn't do well at a sport, she wouldn't allow you to participate in the activities you were good at. So, since I was terrible at football and volley ball, I couldn't participate in archer. Instead, I had to go to the library and write a paper on archery instead. And then she would mark you off for not participating. It was very demoralizing, and it really made it obvious what you were bad at and never what you were good at.

I hated gym.