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Freezing weather, PE indoors

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digbies · 05/01/2009 16:47

I've been lurking and just reading messages for ages, but I've finally registered so that I can have a rant!

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?

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MollieO · 10/02/2009 12:00

My apologies Cammelia (and digbies)! Thought I had read it all honestly! I'm supposed to be revising so obviously brain not functioning today.

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digbies · 10/02/2009 12:18

No problem, MollieO!

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Cammelia · 10/02/2009 13:16

No problem here MollieO, what are you revising for?

digbies, my dd would not feel chuffed at having to do this but I wouldn't say anything to her school I'd just reiterate the neccesity of wearing the "proper" kit

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digbies · 10/02/2009 13:20

Well I've made sure since then that DD is told to take her gym knickers to every lesson she wears her skirt! She does now know the consequences of not doing so, and hopefully she's learbed her lesson! When I spoke to the teacher, I was pretty clear that this wasn't a mad rant, she's an evil witch type of call, just that I had a few concerns. At DD's junior school, doing indoor lessons in your pants was everyday practice, so she does have some experence of it, unlike some of the other girls.

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MollieO · 10/02/2009 18:55

Was supposed to be revising for a RHS exam which I took this afternoon and think I'll be retaking in July . A bit too distracted to devote proper time to my books!

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digbies · 06/03/2009 14:19

Well I thought DD had learned her lesson, but it seems she has not! She got home yesterday and told me exactly the same thing had happened - the pitches were fozen, the lesson brought inside and the girls told not to wear shoes, socks or skirts. Once again, she'd not taken her gym knickers!

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smallorange · 06/03/2009 14:34

To be honest I would just tell her to remeber everything next time if she doesn't want to be embarrassed again.

Couldn't you get her some shorts to take instead, then problem avoided.

No one wore gym skirts at my school.They kept a box of horrible gym gear that you had to put on if you forgot your kit. Mind you, it was a mixed comp.

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digbies · 06/03/2009 15:08

smallorange, I've made it very clear to her that having her kit is her responsibility! She can't have shorts, as they're not part of the school kit. She CAN have gym knickers, but inexplicably chooses not to wear them - but she knows the consequences.

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lazymumofteenagesons · 06/03/2009 15:30

i said it in January and I'll say it again. You've posted all over the show about this gym knicker problem and resurrected the thread each month. Pat2009 also thought this odd. Get over your obsession with gym knickers or go somewhere else to get your kicks.

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digbies · 06/03/2009 15:35

lazy, I'm not sue what gives you the right to tell me to go elsewhere? Are you a moderator or in some way connected with MN, besides posting? What do you mean by "get my kicks"?

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lazymumofteenagesons · 06/03/2009 15:45

Not a moderator, but just find the continuing saga of the gym knickers a bit odd thats all.

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digbies · 06/03/2009 15:48

Plenty of people have contributed to this thread, and I have simply given a relevant update. I have not, as you claim "resurrected the thread each month" and I am insulted by your claim that by posting here I "get my kicks". I would like an apology, please.

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stleger · 06/03/2009 16:01

(Admits fascination that gym knickers still exist!)

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digbies · 06/03/2009 16:05

Pretty unusual these days I think, stleger! Maybe teachers and governors are scarred by their experiences as youngsters!

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stleger · 06/03/2009 18:04

People like me who weren't sporty used to play rounders (coed!) in aertex shirts and marroon gym knickers but the boys had shorts. That would cause a sensation today, my teenagers think it is hilarious. (Then the PE teachers would get somebody to go and rake the sandpit for long jump. I must have been at some Enid Blyton school).

PippaFairyFeet · 06/06/2009 19:58

What if some of the girls had been on their period and wearing a sanitary pad? Oh the embarrassment!

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