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 wish to award you Mother of the Year medal. I wish my mother would have done this - I HATED PE with a PASSION. It was one of the main miseries of my school life.

OP I am with you on this. School PE is a massive load of shite which puts lots of women off physical exercise for decades.
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Imagine if you told adults they were going forced to get changed communally, and then be humiliated in front of their peers!

I did PE for years at school and it was awful. Eventually my dad started writing notes for me that I had a "strained hamstring" . That sorted me out for a few weeks at least. I never got the idea that I could lie my way out of things or that I could avoid things I didn't want to do. Just avoided humiliation for a few weeks.

I would ensure she does energetic and competitive sport outside of school though. Eg martial arts.

You aren’t showing a shining light of good parenting here OP. Sorry for the personal question, but are you or your child overweight? Do you exercise? I am super fit and so is my child. My sister however is lazy on the exercise front and so are her children. You need to lead by example

i cant see the point of pe in either . i hated it when i was at school and so did my now 84 year old mum , when dd is feeling particularly adverse to doing it iv written a note for her , it serves no pratical purpose that i can see , its not like it leads to a qualification at the end of the day ands as for them learning sportsmanship ,its more like they learn how to bully more as the slowest ones get humiliated by being picked for teams last and woe betide those who dont bloody run fast enough , my 12 year old was called a lazy bitch for stopping to tie up her shoe laces that were undone in some dumb race , so no i dont place a lot of importance on pe either

You're enabling!
Lots f kids dislike PE but they just get on with it.
Your child needs to learn that life is not always about avoiding what we don't like!

@Lavender24

God these responses 😂 Did none of you ever skive PE? My Mum always wrote me notes. I got plenty of exercise, I just hated competitive sports. Didn't mind if we did gym or running.

I hated PE with a passion! If it was back in the 80s she could just have permanent periods for the next few weeks 😆

I'm surprised she is fine with walking to and from school, if the reason for not liking PE is the weather. Early mornings are the coldest part of the school day.

@speakout

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

The thing that put me off exercise for decades.

Me too! I was so rubbish at team sports that my best way of contributing was to stay out of the way of the ball 😆 🤣

I found ways to skip PE too, with no adverse effects. The anxiety surrounding it did me more harm than good.

Its not about the fitness at all - can enjoy running a half marathon as an adult and love the gym and cycling etc. I just hated PE, I wouldn't mind if it was my child either if it just seemed to be an isolated thing.

@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)

You want her to have 6 weeks off PE because of the weather…. So no physical reason she can’t do it?

@BamberGascoine

Ugh! You are a ridiculous parent and the reason I am leaving my job as a student support worker in a senior school. Too busy having to sort out the kids who say “my mum says I don’t have to do PE” to deal with the kids who really need the support. You are a drain on resources and your child will become the same. Well done. Aren’t you clever!

Sorry you’ve had such a rough time in your job. Am not seeing a link here though. We’re not asking for any extra support or resources. This school doesn’t even have support workers.

Loads of people dislike PE. Loads of people probably dislike Maths or Science, or English or any of the other stuff. Some people hate parts or all of their job. It doesn’t mean you opt out though.

@2022IamHavingYa

You aren’t showing a shining light of good parenting here OP. Sorry for the personal question, but are you or your child overweight? Do you exercise? I am super fit and so is my child. My sister however is lazy on the exercise front and so are her children. You need to lead by example

doing pe at school does not make you super fit , whats your fitness got to do with pe at school ? , there are plenty of really overweight kids at my dds school who all do pe and no i dont suppose they are fitter than the kids that duck out of doing it frequently

Be a fucking parent you poor excuse for a mother.

Are you always this dramatic? You sound just like the nasty kids in my PE class that would ridicule the non sporty ones

@WhenZoomWasJustAnIceLolly

Team sportsmanship my arse 😂

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

Yes, this. Totally.

You can't just not do a lesson because you don't want to, what kind of example is that setting.

Any other subjects you spoilt child would like to h get of ?

This reminds me how much I used to loathe PE! I did a competitive sport outside of school so I wasn't inactive, just hated the rugby/cricket/netball games we always had to play. Two sporty kids would be elected team captains and get to choose their teams, which was just a popularity contest. Then some stupid cricket ball would come flying at my face and the boys who played cricket on the school teams would all yell at me for jumping out the way of it.

I wouldn't lie for my child though, I would just sympathize and remind them one of the great things of adult life is no more enforced PE!

What schools did you all go to? I loved PE at my high school. Set me up with a life long love of trampolining and handball. Wasnt great at racquet sports but badminton was always fun.

We didnt have bullying or jeering or anything during PE. There were the popular kids who were good at all the sports and the kids who were totally rubbish, but the bullying being discussed on here didnt happen. Not in my uesr group anyway; I cant speak for the rest of it. But I'm getting a shocking idea of PE from this and that doesnt go along with my experience at all.

I hated PE butttttt what other excuses are you going to make for her? How much can she get out of doing because she knows if she asks you you’ll lie for her?

Set an example to your child.

Feel sorry for the poor teachers nowadays with such a lack of parental support.

It’s funny how parents that hated pe seem keen to pass that on to their dc like a weird badge of honour.

You are asking for extra resources if you want her supervised elsewhere.
You're taking up teacher time at the start of the lesson dealing with your DDs bullshit.

You could say something vauge like persistent dizziness or nausea exacerbated by exercise, dr hasnt established cause yet, but lo and behold it resolves next term.

Those asking about art, Spanish, DT, etc. No, I don’t feel particularly strongly about anybody being made to pursue any of those subjects either.

Wouldn't doing this reinforce that it's OK to get out of something unpleasant by lying? Not that we all probably don't do it, just that most of us feel a bit guilty when we do.

I had a 'permanent' excuse due to asthma, but it had to be with a doctor's statement. There were a few of us (asthma, heart condition, etc) who had 'adaptive' PE which was supposed to be lower levels suited to our condition. In actuality, 'Coach' taught us to play poker and blackjack and the only thing 'physical' we did was play ping pong and 'swimming', which consisted of messing about in the pool. I actually taught another girl in the class to swim, which earned me an 'A'.