To ask if you can think of an excuse which will get 11yo off PE for the rest of term?

[HelloKittyGirl]

Just that, basically. What would get her off games for a few weeks?

I've said it all before on her op and can't be bothered tonsay it again. You have my full and absolute support.

I was poo at PE. It made my life a misery, as it made dd's a misery.

Funny how all the uber sporty PE favourites at my school were also the school bullies. What was even better was bumping into them in their size 18 M&S uniforms at the checkout in their mid thirties. They looked knackered as well.

It really helped my self esteem. Having been crap at sport I'm delighted to say I maintained a size 10 until my 30's and even now in my 60s have never reached the heights of an 18 or obesity and never ended up working behind a till.

But sport is so very very important. No it isn't, exercising is. Eating well is. Being kind is. Being empathetic is.

@amusedbush

People on this thread are crowing about the importance of exercise but I swear, my PE teachers had no interest in that. It was fucking humiliating being the slowest person in the class, trying your best while your teammates are aggressively screaming at you to hurry up because it's your fault the team is losing. I'm dyspraxic so I can't catch a ball, I can't jump over a hurdle, I can't throw straight and I can't remember a dance sequence, never mind execute it without tripping over my feet. Now I walk and I use my spin bike at home. Nothing complicated, no fancy movements or sequences or jumping around.

To the people frothing at the mouth about overweight children: have you never heard the phrase "you can't out-train a bad diet"? Exercise alone doesn't do much for weight. Even if you force all of these poor kids to suffer through PE, it will do absolutely fuck all if they are constantly overeating in between those one-hour lessons exercise should be about engaging in enjoyable movement for overall health (mental and physical) and nothing to do with weight.

this , several pages in and we are still getting the shite about fat kids needing pe as if somehow an hour a week is going to help them lose weight when the minute they get home they are no doubt stuffing crap to pile back on any calories they might have burned off .

Yes why not teach her lying works - she's 11 - perhaps next year she won't like French or what's the point of PSHCE etc etc

You are a Parent not her schoolmate

@amusedbush you said that so.much better than I just did.

I'm surprised at a school letting kids sit in the library if they are missing PE. It's practically encouraging kids to skip PE so they can hang out with their friends there rather than attend a lesson. They could end up with hardly any doing PE and most getting a note from their parents to have time out of lessons

Another one who doesn’t think it’s a good idea to show your DC that it’s ok to lie to avoid doing things we don’t like doing.

You do this, then what’s the next thing. Future employers will expect people to do things they don’t fancy doing. It’s all part of life.

@RosesAndHellebores

I've said it all before on her op and can't be bothered tonsay it again. You have my full and absolute support.

I was poo at PE. It made my life a misery, as it made dd's a misery.

Funny how all the uber sporty PE favourites at my school were also the school bullies. What was even better was bumping into them in their size 18 M&S uniforms at the checkout in their mid thirties. They looked knackered as well.

It really helped my self esteem. Having been crap at sport I'm delighted to say I maintained a size 10 until my 30's and even now in my 60s have never reached the heights of an 18 or obesity and never ended up working behind a till.

But sport is so very very important. No it isn't, exercising is. Eating well is. Being kind is. Being empathetic is.

Even allowing for the of pain from your childhood related to PE, you should be ashamed to write this post.

I absolutely hated PE when I was at school. I was rubbish at everything, I had no confidence and used to feel sick with dread on the days where I had PE. The fear of the changing rooms where the popular loud girls picked on anyone and everyone, the teachers who ridiculed you, being picked last for teams, being shouted at by everyone else on the team for being useless. I just refused point blank to take part or forged notes then just avoided going to school altogether.

Perhaps next year she won't like French or what's the point of PSHCE etc etc

Well, OP's already said she "doesn't feel particularly strongly about anybody being made to pursue (art, Spanish, DT, etc,) either", so who knows where this could end?

Hilarious one about getting her crutches to hobble round on though ... that could be amusing when she gets fed up of them, forgets, and starts skipping round normally, but at least it'll give the staff a wry smile

There is a difference between what a child doesn't like and what makes a child so miserable it deeply affects their self esteem due to bullying.

DD's 6th form was chosen because PE wasn't compulsory. Then in UVI they made it compulsory and I strongly objected because that was not the basis on which the school was chosen or why we had decided to pay £16k per annum.

DD spent PE lessons in the library. And dropped 6 ums points across three A'Levels and went to Cambridge and had a blast in footlights. Sport did nothing for her whatsoever. She focused on grade 8 voice instead and has had a couple of minor operatic parts, sings in a choir (a good one) and has built a social life round it. She keeps fit for the sake of her lilunhs and diaphragm and probably always will.

I dont get theat everyone gets changed even if they can't do pe. Our Ddil had a catastrophic accident as a teenager, could have died. Was taken into crash team at A&E. Her injuries (with scarring) meant she physically could not do pe but she was made to change into pe kit 'to be part of it'. Mentally that caused major issues of having others seeing her scars / seeing her 'broken body' . Cruel and totally unnecessary.

You're brave posting this OP!

I must have had a terrible mother too, she often wrote me notes to get out of swim class Did me no harm, and I have two degrees!

@Drunkpanda

Lying isn't something I'd want to teach my dc to be honest

Don't worry, they will learn it themselves

Oh I love how worked up people are getting about this. P.E is fucking shit. I dreaded it everytime. I was always "forgetting my stuff".
My ds loved P.E in primary school. He did athletics for the school team, he never forgot his P.E kit. Went to high school and that all changed quickly. Now he's always trying to get out of it because it's utter shit.

[quote RosesAndHellebores]@amusedbush you said that so.much better than I just did.[/quote]
Thank you for the compliment, though in response to your own comment, I’m afraid I actually am a size 18. My weight has yo-yoed by several stones by whole life due to binge eating secondary to undiagnosed ADHD.

Being fat isn’t a moral failing. In fact, I was horrifically bullied throughout school (search my name and find my posts if you like). My school bully was at my brother’s wedding last year and she is still a size 8.

I find your post really upsetting, judgemental and fatphobic. Being thin isn’t a victory and it doesn’t make you better than anyone else.

It is utter shit. I hated it abd went on to compete at national level in my chosen sport as an adult

@Asperula

My children go to an average local Comp and they don't have people on the staff who are sadistic bullies who enjoy humiliating kids. What sort of schools are these where they employ people like that? How would you know? Because I've got a dd in Year 13 and one in Year 10 and they talk about school to me?

Which tells you that they are not the ones getting stick, says nothing about others, guarantee some kids are being bullied by some staff and pupils without a shadow of a doubt

@Drunkpanda what precisely shoukd I be ashamed about. I never bullied anyone or made them cry or humiliated them. They did that to me. One thing I'll say is that it built my resilience at work and to think of the feelings of others.

I never said at the till "bra haa, you've turned into a fatso - couldn't you have done better? Perhaps they ended up with stodgy, pedestrian lives because they were just plain nasty and didn't deblvelop appropriate life skills.

RosesAndHellebores. I'm guessing you are not too bothered about how people who work on a till feel reading your post. It's obviously something you really look down on

I’ve heard it all, what terrible parenting, no wonder they get called the snowflake generation!

Which tells you that they are not the ones getting stick, says nothing about others, guarantee some kids are being bullied by some staff and pupils without a shadow of a doubt
No they would mention if they'd seen that.

That’s so pathetic-sorry. She doesn’t want to do PE because of the weather?? Seriously, you need to parent your child and support the school. I feel so sorry for teachers these days.

@HelloKittyGirl

Those asking what will change in a few weeks time…

The weather!

(Although yes, I do realise there’ll be other years before anyone points that out. The PE requirement at her school drops quite considerably though after Year 9)

The weather???

Poor diddums. I'm now going to assume she's wrapped in bubble wrap and driven everywhere in case she dissolves in the rain. In which case the last thing this kid needs is a mother trying to get her out of physical exercise because 'weather'

What the hell is wrong with working behind a till @RosesAndHellebores. You just sound nasty.

@RosesAndHellebores

I've said it all before on her op and can't be bothered tonsay it again. You have my full and absolute support.

I was poo at PE. It made my life a misery, as it made dd's a misery.

Funny how all the uber sporty PE favourites at my school were also the school bullies. What was even better was bumping into them in their size 18 M&S uniforms at the checkout in their mid thirties. They looked knackered as well.

It really helped my self esteem. Having been crap at sport I'm delighted to say I maintained a size 10 until my 30's and even now in my 60s have never reached the heights of an 18 or obesity and never ended up working behind a till.

But sport is so very very important. No it isn't, exercising is. Eating well is. Being kind is. Being empathetic is.

But sport is so very very important. No it isn't, exercising is. Eating well is. Being kind is. Being empathetic is.

Well you appear to have missed out on at least the last two things there, according to this post. At least you might've been good at netball if you gave it a chance...