To think DD's punishment from PE teacher was draconian?

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DD is in Year 10 and came home quite annoyed about a punishment she got in PE for something very minor in the first place. Her teacher made her get changed into her PE kit at lunchtime (without any tracksuit in the cold wet weather), and run laps around the football pitch for all but the last 15 minutes of the break (so she could eat), much of it whilst the boys were having football practice, who apparently found it quite funny. Is it overreacting to think this is a bit out of order? I might not have been surprised when I was at school but I can't help be a bit annoyed, seems a bit like it was intended to embarrass her and unnecessary.

I can honestly say that sport has taught me more about myself than anything else.

Commitment, dedication, resilience, training in the cold/snow/rain/wind. Keeping going when my body is screaming to give up. Mental toughness. A Can Do attitude. Teamwork. Laughter. Dedication. Spirit. Motivation. A healthy relationship with food. Fitness. Strength. Pushing harder than I even thought possible.

I could keep going and going.

Need I am genuinely pleased for you. It is brilliant you have had such positive experiences. My comments are not to discourage those who have had good experience of sports, or PE or school.

I think some who have had good experiences find it harder to believe those of us who have not. But I don't find it hard to believe some have thrived in sports and schools.

I was sporty at school and took part in extra curricular sports.
I honestly don't think pe taught me very much at all though. You don't do the different sports enough to become good without extra lessons anyway and once you've found your preferred sports carrying on with the others is a waste of time really.

I didn't take pe for GCSE as advised by all but my pe teacher it would be a waste. Still had to do two compulsory pe lessons a week but I missed one of those due to doing triple science, again all teachers advised that science was far more important.
My boyfriend was signed to a youth professional football team, when he was at school and he agrees school pe taught him nothing. In fact his coaches used to go mad at some of the warm up exercises he was taught at school.

I actually didn't have a good experience of PE at school at all, as I am mid 40's and obviously things were pretty dreadful then.

I am not going to let a negative experience define my attitude towards something though I guess.

My English teacher was bloody useless, but I still love books

Need

I too am glad you had a good experience of PE. Although I expect for every child who had a good experience, there were probably another do another dozen who didn't.

I didn't Psedonym99, it was rotten. Just as my experience of English A Level was fairly dire too. My point was that neither bad experience has put me off sport or reading.

Ah, sorry Need - I misunderstood! You are the same age as me, so must have had a similar experience of PE as me. Must have been the in thing back in those days for PE teachers to be evil! We were out in the freezing cold when it was pissing down with rain too.

Francis You know what? When I was typing, I nearly re-typed 'things were bad at my particular school at that time', but was multi-tasking, and didn't do so. So fair point you made there.

I was just making the general point I outlined above really. My negative experience (which wasn't confined to just PE) hasn't stopped me enjoying sport.

We cross posted

Need I am dyslexic and have an almost phobia of reading books. I was 'effectively' told I was too thick to do French. As an adult I studied Mandarin.

I would say I have not been defined by my bad experiences at school but some influences stick. It has also, I have given me an awareness of how school and team activities/sports etc might be difficult for some.

Choosing not to be defined by negative experiences is great but even that can be hard for some.

Pseudo I've just seen your private message. I'm 46. I think that's awful you had to wear just underwear but i don't think that was typical in the 80s. Your PE teachers must have been odd. Mine were ok but i do appreciate not everyone had the same experience.

Puffin I would use a stronger word than odd, though! I know my experience wasn't typical, but have heard it from others too. Not only the punishment for forgetting kit, but going outdoors in freezing rain, the showers. Really put me off sport. I didn't mind PE in primary school.

I think that's awful you had to wear just underwear
Although if it was a mixed lesson they were gracious enough to let us wear our blouse or jumper

I know I'm going to sound obsessional about it, but here is another thread where is has happened more recently than the 1980s!:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/a677649-to-expect-school-to-be-ready-for-games-being-cancelled

That thread is obviously a perv troll. The op started off being shocked and angry that their child had to wear underwear, then later on in the saga after she'd complained to the head, her child lost their gym knickers and the op purposely sent her child in without shorts to teach her a lesson and she was made to do pe in her underwear again. I don't believe a word of it.

That thread is definitely a perv thread. Makes me wonder...