Sport, PE, games etc

[UnquietDad]

Hands up if you absolutely LOATHED sport at school.

I had to spend two afternoons a week doing something which was, basically, an excuse for organised bulying and a total waste of my time. 20 years on it still rankles!!

What particularly annoyed me was that the sports teachers only seemed bothered about those who were team material. If you were rubbish, they were just not interested in giving you any additional help. (Conversely, in French, Maths and English, all of which I was near the top in, the teaching often seemed geared to the level of the thickest.) I really hope things arent like that any more.

I've got to try and make sure this doesn't rub off on DD and DS. I don't want to be giving them a note to get out of games at the merest hint of a snuffle, but it'll be hard to resist...

Me too UQD - I managed to get out of it in the sixth form - some of us were asked to help the librarian move into the new library building in the first term - it was supposed to last for 3 weeks of games lessons,but somehow I never returned to games. The PE teacher never complained ... either she didn't realise I wasn't there, or she did & preferred my room to my company.
I still have one of my reports which in the Games/PE section just says "Rusty continues to enjoy a little gentle exercise"

I hated it too, but I have to admit, reluctantly, that some of our PE teachers did try with hopeless cases like me. I'd just rather have been doing pretty well anything but their subject. We didn't have to do it at all in the sixth form, much to my relief.

I think matters have improved. Many schools seem to give their pupils opportunities to do exercises other than competitive games, and there are proper warm-ups before the games etc. start, which was unknown when I was at school. Nasty competitiveness of the kind I remember really doesn't seem to be encouraged.

I had similar worries to yours once, UnquietDad, but my sons' experience has fortunately been very different from mine. They actually like PE (apart from dance, which of course very few self-respecting boys will admit to liking, even now )