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 had a deal with mine that they could forget their kit every week and do the detention as the school saw fit in punishment.

I'm not making myself a liar for them to skive pe. I go to the mattresses on a lot of school stuff (ASD) but I'm buggered if I'm going to lie for them. If there was a genuine issue (which we have had with changing room bullying) then we address the issue, we don't lie.

Teaching your kids to lie about difficult stuff is a shit lesson. Being crap at stuff is life - it's how you deal with it that predicts long term outcomes.

It's a few weeks as you just said. Surely she can suck it up for few weeks

Not a good example for your daughter. Be the parent. She's barely started secondary and you want her to be a special case? Parents and school need to stand united as the default position. You are undermining their authority, making a difficult job even harder.

And wait until she's a teenager proper- your sanctioning of school rule breaking for no good reason at this early stage is likely to rebound on you and will work against her best interests in the long term.

Shin splints

Plantar fasciitis

I hated PE at school.

About mid way through year 11 I kept 'forgetting' my kit so couldn't do it.

I think my teacher realised I was a lost cause and just gave up on it. I was 16 already by that point so didn't have to even be at school if I didn't want. I was leaving that school after GCSEs as well.

As far as I know my parents were never questioned about it either.

So because your DD doesn’t particularly like a subject that you deem unimportant you think it’s ok for you both to lie to get her out of it? What a terrible example you’re setting for her.

I wouldn’t do it, but it’s really not the same as missing maths.

Even if she opts out she won’t be able to just go off and do what she wants- she’ll have to umpire/help out.

I also wouldn’t encourage lying

Sprained ankle

Gwendoline Mary Lacey, is that you?

@WhenZoomWasJustAnIceLolly

Team sportsmanship my arse 😂

Bullying, public humiliation, a lifetime of psychological issues. I wouldn’t care if my dc never did PE again.

That's awful that there's so much bullying and public humiliation at your dcs' school. I'd probably try and move them to another school if I were you

A tendon issue in her wrist

Got me out ofc4 years of PE that one.

Teaching your child to lie to get out of doing something. Yay way to go. What lie will you come up with when she doesn't want to go to work or collage because she doesn't like it.

If you think she won't tell her friends and it'll get back to the teacher then you're a bit naïve.

It iant just for exercise. It's team sportsmanship.

Sportsmanship??? You never went to my secondary school then that's for sure. The non sporty, nerdy or overweight kids never chosen, never got the ball passed to them and might as well not have been there at all because they were so overlooked by their "team mates", it was nothing more than an exercise in public humiliation for some.

Don’t say tennis elbow. There are consequences for things like it and she will be found it with the consequences it deserves.
Just get her to do it. End of

Pahhahahhahahah. You're seriously trying to get your kid out of PE for a "few weeks" because if the weather??

Are you actually serious?

So every time it's chilly she doesn't have to do PE? Do you genuinely think she'll magically be fine with PE once the temperature is a bit higher? What's an acceptable weather condition for PE participation?

@Thesearmsofmine
They are taught they are part of the lesson despite any excuses they might have. You wouldn't be allowed to do History in an English lesson. Doing English in PE is no better.

Then what about when she doesn't want to do it again next term ?
I hated PE , but I don't think it's ok to teach her to lie.

@nocoolnamesleft

If I'd been let skip PE, maybe I wouldn't have been left with a lifelong visceral hatred for exercise. Every single sport, I was either the worst or the second worst in the year. You can imagine what the bullying was like. From the other kids, but especially from those sadistic bitches of teachers.

This was my situation too. I used to feel sick with nerves in the lesson before PE, desperately hoping it wouldn't be netball or volleyball etc as I was incapable of catching a ball partly due to issues with my eyesight. It was so embarrassing and plenty of bullying went on.

It has taken me years to learn to like exercise and I still feel very self conscious if I venture into a gym!

[quote SE13Mummy]@Asperula it's a new rule so doesn't appear in any policy I can find. DC2 would be more than happy to wear PE kit for the whole day to show PE willing, maybe I'll email and offer that as an alternative.[/quote]
It's unlikely they'll be required to get changed with a broken limb

@TheBareTree

Gwendoline Mary Lacey, is that you?

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I had a period every week in secondary, no teachers cared. I used to sit with the asthmatic girl while the others got whacked by bullies with hockey sticks. If it's cross country though... They make you trail along behind I quite like sports and fitness now, I just didn't enjoy being forced into physical activity with people that enjoy hurting others.