My next door neighbor has retired but he was the head basketball coach as well as the honors english teacher at the local high school.
When I was in high school, the football coach also taught world history. It did not take us very long to find that he gave out grades based on his overall opinion of the individual students rather than the class work or test scores. Athletes always received top grades. Girls were graded based on their attractiveness with extra points given for bust size. As a student classified as an “attitude and discipline problem” I carried a straight “D”
Our head football coach didn’t teach anything, but some of the assistant coaches taught classes. They ranged from “great” to “completely idiotic and are obviously just doing this because they’re required to teach something in order to be assistant coaches” or some rule like that.
My wrestling coaches were definitely not qualified to do anything except teach wrestling. They would have killed all their students if they had to teach a class.
My rugby coaches? They were too busy getting fucked up to teach a class.
I’m always startled when people talk about their gym teachers teaching anything other than gym, I really couldn’t picture most of those guys we had being that useful.
The only exception was one man and one woman who taught us Health/Sex Ed. in middle school, one of them was one of the gym teachers at the high school, and the other was eventually hired on as a gym teacher as well. I always thought of them as teachers first though because that was how I met them. They were both younger than the “old school” gym-only guys.
I just remembered: in high school some of the teachers doubled as sports coaches. My Social Studies teacher was also the baseball coach (JV maybe?). I think he did it partly for the extra money, he really was a teacher first and a coach second. He never taught gym or anything like that.
Our PE teachers were just PE teachers. Some of the other teachers were coaches for after-school stuff (like my Spanish teacher, who coached the tennis team) but as far as I know, none of the PE teachers taught academics.
Until high school all gym teachers were from other teaching jobs. They had to do their hour of gym class. In high school they were gym teachers only and might have to do their hour of study hall.
We had like 6 PE teachers. A couple were also coaches for track and football. Others taught drivers ed or health. My soccer coach taught American history and government. He was a good teacher. The cross country coach taught biology.
High school: football coach for algebra. Another coach for AP Math, including beginning calculus, of course. He was actually pretty good. He also taught beginning calculus at a small local college.
My high school was the same way, except we had 3 male PE teachers and only one female. Two of the males taught health (& occasionally the school nurse did). The female didn’t have time for anything else except her own lunch. Oh and the social studies teachers (who were all male) also doubled as coachs for various boys’ sports. BTW in the 30+ years from when the school was opened to when I graduated there wasn’t a single female social studies teacher (student teachers excluded).
In my school there were three PE teachers, two taught Geograhpy and the other German. My sister and her husband were both PE and Math teachers in a secondary school. Maths isnt broken down here like it is in US schools so they taught all types.