to expect school to be ready for games being cancelled in the cold weather?

[digbies]

I've posted this in secondary education as well, but heremay be a better place.

My DD is in her 2nd year at secondary school and has games timetabled every Monday, so she went off this morning with her hockey gear. When I met he this evening I asked if she'd done hockey today, considering that the pitch was probably frozen. Thankfully she said no, but what she told me then shocked and annoyed me.

Apparently the whole class had changed and were redy when the teacher arrived late and tod them they'd be indoors doing gymnastics instead. She got the girls to remove their boots, put on their school shoes and walk to the gym, where they took their shoes off and went into the gym. The teacher then told the girls to take their socks off so they were barefoot, but also to remove their skirts !

Apparently the teacher said that skirts were dangerous in the gym with the apparatus, and wasn't moved by the fact that quite a few girls, my dd included, weren't wearing their gym knickers beneath their skirts. I'm right to be angry about this, aren't I?

Why I wrote "support" when I meant "sport" I have no idea!

Aaaargh! It seems that DD2 has managed to "misplace" the gym knicks! She has dance in PE tomorrow - so do I send her with shorts, or teach her the lesson and let her teacher deal with her?

I've told DD2 to find the gym knicks, or tell her PE teacher that she's lost them. We'll see what happens!

We've now seen what happened! DD2 clearly didn't think ahead, as she went without her full kit, and told her teacher. Sure enough, "if you've not got shorts you can do it in your pants." DD2 didn't seem that concerned. The official PE kit has now arrived, so we'll see if she managed to keep it all together for the whole term!

Gym knickers were a hideous and outdated item which we all dreaded having to wear as teenagers 20+ years ago. I cant believe ANY school still has them as uniform. whats wrong with a pair of shorts ffs.

And "they" wonder why most girls give up sport as soon as they can, given the ritual humiliation about our bodies that we were all subjected to by pe teachers!

sorry to any reasonable pe teachers out there but it really gets my goat.

Sorry, I realise this is a long and rambling threrad! The school has now changed the uniform to t-shirts and lycra shorts, but the uniform supplier had problems and has only delivered the kit today, I believe. As a result, DD2 was sent with her sister's gym knickers last week, "lost" them and then went without later in the week.