DS (8) came out of school athletics club today in tears. There is an interschools athletics event next week which he hasn't been selected for. He has been to running club every cold, wet week of the year, because he loves to run. He knew last week that he hadn't been chosen, because he didn't get a letter home about it, but today the PE teacher called him aside during athletics club to tell him that he had in fact been selected but his class teacher said he shouldn't be allowed to do it. apparently she had said that someone else should get a turn at doing something extra because DS had taken part in a maths day and a literacy day (which last time I checked didn't involve any running ;) ) . DS's reading of the situation is that if he's smart they won't let him compete in sports, and so his declared aim ( through sobs) is to be less smart next year. I am pretty frustrated. I know that things need to be shared around, but it drives me nuts when teachers handle it clumsily and children become demotivated. Teachers I'm open to rebuke here, or at least another opinion. But I guess I just hate, like we all do, those moments when we have to tell our sad children that life isn't always fair, and no matter how good they are at something, or how badly they want it, it may not be theirs. would you talk to the teachers about it, or just leave it?
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AIBU: to be annoyed he didn't get selected for a sports event, because 'he's already had a maths and english day'????
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Katsh · 04/07/2016 18:16
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