School PE lessons, children made to pick teams, disgusting or what

[DistingusedSocialCommentator]

I've just read a thread by an FM here asking if "schools were getting children to choose teams" and FM felt it was "old-fashioned"

Schools bang on about inclusion/fairness/caring/MH well-being, etc etc

FFS (sorry about my language) how the F does a child feel when they are the group of children who are almost the last ones to be picked???

What ruddy clowns at schools still allow this disgusting and ignorant method of choosing teams?? Are you not ruddy aware that this method of choosing teams can and does affect children's MH and can scar them for like

Any teachers here care to comment, or justify this ludicrously pathetic and ancient method of hosing teams??

does it go in your child's school or one you work in? If so, have you pulled up the culprits?

AIBU to believe this method of choosing teams is outdated and harmful to many of our DC?

Tomorrow, I will get on to the papers/radio and tv stations to outlaw this crass method of choosing teams in PE and other settings in schools.

Why have you made another thread?

We still use the cane too and make children wear dunces hats.

How would you suggest that teams get picked?

Is it satire or are you drunk OP? 😂

1,2,1,2,1,2 - there you go.

Well I was always the last to be picked for a team, but I also learned that this was fair enough as I had poor hand eye coordination.
I also sat exams and - shock, horror - we were ranked in our results!

I simply learned that I was exceptionally good at certain subjects and that I was probably better to focus on those rather than a sports career.

It didn't affect my mental health or scar me for life, it gave me a realistic understanding of my strengths and weaknesses.

Put the cap back on the gin bottle luvvy.

Have you not read my post??
Have you not read what I am hoping to achieve:?

Create a hundred cards with letters of the alphabet on them and keep throwing them up into the air until they land to form a child’s name. Rinse and repeat to get the next team member. Oh and do it to find the name of the kid who will be doing the throwing. Can’t get fairer and less traumatising than that.

@HowardsWayward if you did it that way people would be complaining that they never get on a team with their friends as they always stand together.

If tomorrow is a slow news day, you may get some interest from the papers.

Clearly, you've not been to school as its not rocket science.

1,2,1,2,1,2,1,2

At work on team away days it was depending on the number of teams

1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 GET it!!

@DistingusedSocialCommentator

"Tomorrow, I will get on to the papers/radio and tv stations to outlaw this crass method of choosing teams in PE and other settings in schools."

Fortunately the media in the UK doesn't actually have the power to legislatensure.

By the way, are you supposed to be distinguished or disgusted?

i would sort them into groups myself

Time for bed

I was always picked last for every team, because I was fat and uncoordinated. I was however frequently picked to sing solos and perform the lead roles in plays, plus I was really good at English.

Being picked last doesn't always ruin a child's MH, if they develop resilience and are supported to do well in other areas.

Apologies, should read "legislate"

I'm more concerned that she's hosing teams. Hopefully not with a pressure washer.

Pretty much this. Except after a while I learned there were some sports I was good at, and I got picked for them. And by the time I was an older teen a learned a bit of stakeholder management and how to get on with and form relationships with different groups of people, and then I also go picked more. Kind of like work really.

What's an FM?

And you can say fuck here

@DistingusedSocialCommentator and when the children catch and place themselves in the line so they get to stay with their friends? Children aren’t stupid and can easily manipulate the system.

We picked our own at primary in the nineties

Some children may but certainly, no parents who have been vicitims of this method

I was one of the last few, always. I was able to play most sports relatively well but never wanted to be in a school team I was almost always last because my parents are from another country that is really hot/warm for a good 9/10 months of the years as was the Irish lad.

Thankfully at work, we had many team days etc as I worked for social services, t was the sensible method of being given a number and the same numbers in same team. We did have a couple of prized idiots that did not want to be with X/Y/Z but the manger was good and told them to STAY.

OP clearly there is more going on.

Do you have a child who is feeling left out and stressed? If so, that must be hard and I could see why you would be angry.

Why don’t you share more about the underlying situation and perhaps people can help, or at least let you vent more constructively.

You mean other children picked their own teams, ie the leaders of the team?