It is obvious that ALL children do not like sports or performance in same

[GabbyLoggon]

Give the kids a say in this

I hated sport with a passion. I have dyspraxia and cannot play team sports at all. I was bullied by teachers and called lazy and pupils would refuse to partner me in games like tennis because I was incapable of playing.

As I got older I found physical activities that I can do and am good at, hiking, sprinting, yoga and working out at the gym. It would have helpful if teachers could have recognised that I wasn't being deliberately useless and not being good at team sports does not mean that I can't be involved in an alternative form of exercise.

would teachers please respond to thaisgreencurry excellent post. To show your humanity. Thanks

Can someone please write a Loggonese-English dictionary? I'm sure that MN would be happy to publish it.

Malinopia.. You sound as though you only read the Exchange and Mart and the Sun...Try nightschool Good luck. Or is it the daily Torygraph?

Can we have some teacher response to Thaigreen post. Bare your teaching soul

Can we have some teacher response to Thaigreen post. Bare your teaching soul

Incidentally I beleive a wretched Sports Minister was in my county today telling a one sided yarn about kids and compulsory sport

sorry about the triple posting it was a malfunction of the comp.

You wont be suprised that I was hoping Gabby Logan would come nearby to do the speil for the Sports For Kids. (she is a big cheese)

i WANT TO RETURN TO THE SUBJECT OF THE 2 CHILDREN WHO DIED TRAGICALLY AFTER COMPULSORY RUNNING. It had been put to me that with hidden faults they would have died anywaY. nOT CONVINCED...LETS PUT A HYPOTHETICAL TO YOU...me? AT 40 SAYS i WILL RUN THAT HALF MARATHON ON SUNDAY... i DROP DOWN DEAD.....IS IT NOT POSSIBLE THAT IF I HAD KEPT OUT OF RUNNING I MIGHT HAVE LIVED TO 70 hOW NATURAL IS RUNNING UNDER PRESSURE FOR YOUNG CHILDREN...0R 40 YEAR OLD MEN?

I find your use of the examples of dead children abhorrent.

Are you trying to make the case that children should never be permitted to break sweat because those with undiagnosed heart conditions might die? What else would you seek to ban? An apparently healthy young man died in the bath of my Hall of Residence from a similar heart condition. Are you going to ban baths too?

PE/Games made me cry at school. The teacher called me a div and the others laughed - just couldn't do it and made me determined never to be involved in team sports for the rest of my life. Nowadays PE teachers call the ones who can't do it muppets. Things have improved slightly they can't get away with staring at the girls as they go through the shower to make sure they shower thoroughly!!! It's a level of humiliation for those who can't do the subject that has been erased from the rest of curriculum. I would also like to add that I had no problems, cycling, sailing, riding, walking, have always been well within my BMI and am regarded as extremely fit and health. Emotionally both dd and I have suffered because of PE/Games. AFAIAC it should be optional from Y9 onwards. It attracts adult bullies and encourages child bullies.

Sadly, Gabby Logan will be only too aware of the dangers of a child with an undiagnosed condition dying suddenly during exercise, so I think attacking her on this subject is pretty insensitive really.

medit calm down and address the question, it was a dead 40 year old, ME

Please dont give me an easy teachers get out answer. I deserve better. We would ALL defend our own backs in tragikc circumstances. Not just the teaching profession .....They hav eonly started admitting bullying is a diffult reality in recent years Kids break sweat. I am talking abouit pressure running. (ask Gabby Logan, she thinks shes aN EXPERT. sHE IS JUST A WOMAN WITH OPINIONS. Lets have yours.

For those who are interested, here's a link to SADS. It can even happen when you sleep.

gabby - you cited the cases of two children, named in this thread, not 40year olds. There is no evidence whatsoever of pressure on those two children to participate, indeed they were keen on sport.

Med..teachers make decisions not children.

The school said in one case "she was keen to run" was it her decisaion to make?

I was ridiculed at the start for implying that chgildren should have a choice. "They dont on maths, arithmetic etc" I am interested in the case as a n example of what systems are in place. The case in particular is history.

Med I do not think you are being candid. I am informed that most school runs for seniors are compulsory with teachers bawling on the sidelines. Is this about RIGHT....Yes or no, please

Gabby - I have never seen any teacher bawling on the sidelines. It sounds like you may have a had a traumatic time at your school which by the sounds of things was quite a considerable time ago.

I really don't understand what you are trying to say.....

I am trying to say now that there is a lack of candour on this board

You can run a cross country with no shouting; and a football match. (Fergie would laugh and I am just getting annoyed with the daft blocking by
people wh should know better)

Dont bother to post unless you are prepared to be open.

OK, I'll bite.

Yes, sports should be compulsory. Is that candid enough for you?

YES, Kaumana. Thank you. And it seems you have a majority view.....We await Gabby Logan....the Mumsnet answers are in the pipeline.