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

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AIBU to believe this method of choosing teams is outdated and harmful to many of our DC?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

I'm crap at sport.

Being picked last for teams sucked. It also sucked when we were assigned into teams and people rolled their eyes and swore under their breath when they saw they were stuck with me. Neither way was preferable.

The worst was that I really was bad at it. I could somehow make a whole team lose. I'm not an idiot, but I just have some kind of very specific sport brain block. I could never remember which goal was mine. I would instinctively shut my eyes before taking a shit. Balls coming at me fast SCARED me and I'd run away from them. Even non-compeitive sports - Id frequently get stuck halfway up the climbing wall and need rescuing while everyone waited underneath. Honestly, I'd have picked me last too, and even though I hated it I did understand it.

I was so relieved when I started menstruating and could use that as an excuse. I think I claimed period pains every day for months in year 9.

I agree being picked last is awful, but it's more of a symptom than a disease. Being crap at sport in school is awful. It's such a public failure. I wish I knew what the solution is.

I would instinctively shut my eyes before taking a shit.

Thank you, @stormywhethers321, this typo has made my entire day!!

Lol, I suppose I'm also shit at typing!!!

@stormywhethers321 It made me laugh out loud! Whenever there are school closures I text all my friends asking “is your/your kids’ school shut” and I make the same typo EVERY TIME 😆

Anyway - I agree that being crap at sport at school is especially awful because it’s so public. This is why it winds me up so much when people claim that sports day for non-sporty kids is exactly the same as the rest of school for non-academic kids: no-one makes you read out your essays or solve maths problems in front of the whole school and their parents.

No need to go to the papers OP - as a teacher I, nor have any of my colleagues past or present, have ever used this method for selecting teams.

I would consider this an isolated event and not a national school incentive.

Hi
Thanks. The post you were responding IMO is a poster that just wants to shit stir.

I'm referencing my experiences in the 70's and not all teachers were great just like now but many were, just like now.

I don't blame the teachers in the 70's as it was the culture. Nowadays, where this goes on, it is either laziness or ignorance.

As you said to the poster, "its not a teacher bashing thread." I initiated this thread and I know its not

I just hope people read this and some of whom are teachers and or know teachers and get the message across to the very small minority that operates like this.