Why do some kids hate PE?

[Enid]

and shouldn't we be encouraging them to enjoy it rather than helping them bunk off?

enid's thought for the day.

mine love it
so ner

so do mine

but they are too young to feel like failures - is it that that kids dont like? The not winnning? Or is it the physical part of it?

its the shouty teacher

and the inreaistic sports you do
why not golf ( liek in schotland) or gyms or womthing oyu may actually DO as an adult

what is unrealistic? netball? lots of people still do it. Running? swimming? Hockey (well Ok), football, rugby?

I think a lot of times it's b/c PE is still a throwback to the 1950s - using exercises from the 50s, even.

Some schools offer more appealing stuff like street dancing, yoga, golf, etc. and have found students are more interested in that than jumping jacks and running around a track.

Also, if they don't have adequate facilities for showering, cleaning up afterwards, it could be a real turnoff for teens, particularly those concerned w/looking their best. Who'd want to get all sweaty in the middle of the day or the morning and then spend all day reeking? Yuk.

golf? fgs

my dsses love golf, go every week

oh don't get me started...
it's the emphasis on pain rather than enjoyment
it's the emphasis on achievement rather than participation - so that the ones who are "no good at sport" get ridiculed and ignored
not everyone likes competitive sport
not everyone is good at it
there should be much more of an emphasis on teaching fitness and something that suits the individual
it's the teachers...

You're a toff, Cod .

Mine loves his PE teacher who is great, but at six is already falling foul of the team-picking hierarchy. It's not the activity he dislikes, it is human nature. Seems quite all right to swagger about how hard you can tackle another little boy but NOT OK to be top of the class in reading.
He is very fit btw - we walk everywhere and he does tennis and swimming on top of one session of games and one of PE a week.
I was not always a bloater - but I hated hockey and netball at school because brute strength was encouraged. I liked sport with a bit of finesse, like fencing and dancing. Or solo stuff like long-distance running or swimming.
And I am sorry to say that with the exception of the part-time dance and tennis coach, who was a shrewd laugh and a good teacher, all our PE teachers were archetypal sadistic yock-yocks in short skirts over tracky bottoms.
A lot more dancing should be taught in schools IMO. It's a sport that's also a life-skill, like swimming.
And more "fun" team sports like tag rugby and basketball rolled out.

Much better put than I did buffy. Hockey for an hour and half on a sleet-lashed pitch while the teachers took it in turns to sit in the pavilion with hot ribena and jeer. FFS, I think they have a LOT to answer for.

yes thats very true marina

you can legitimately show off about sport in a way that you can't about academia. Odd that.

my daughter has cerebal palsy and the oyher day she said to me "mum each lesson is 55 mins long and I just can't stand that long without it hurting." she asked if she could sit down and was told no!I am absolutlty furious luckily her review meeting is next week and I will ask for it to be written into her statement that she be allowed to rest when she needs.Because she tries really hard and gives everything her best people seem to think she should be able to everything.we had similar problems with swiming at primary school she was being held back not because of the distance she could swim but her style,she used her arms to swim and her legs to keep stable if she used both she sank.Had to get the physio to have a word to get it sorted.

HC are you going to parp yourself?!!

expat not a toff! actually we pay £ 1 50 at t he pitch and putt, they go with dh and we haev found its good as ds1 is actually BETTER at it than ds2 ( a novelty with sport in our hosue) and he HAS to slow down and take care ant think before he golfs ( also a novelty chez nous)

If someone came up to me now and said "Right then, one hour of Hockey/Netball/Cross Country Running, chop chop!" I would recoil in horror. If given the choice of HOW I exercise, that's great, I love to do it - hill-walking, gardening, swimming, gym. But competitive/organised sports are not for everybody and should be done for pleasure and enjoyment and not just for their own sake. No, maths isn't everyone's cup of tea but it helps you to perform basic tasks everyday and have an understanding of the world around you. The same isn't true of Hockey.

I HATED PE and bunked off every lesson for the final two years of secondary school so I could study in the library instead.

Because it's crap. In no other subject are you expected to compete with people a lot better than you.

Can you imagine? A maths teacher yelling

"Right, all these quadratic equations, and I want them done 5 minutes faster than last week!"

Then making all the clever kids wait, and letting them shout things while the slow kids catch up?

Not acceptable. But for some reason ok in PE.

PE should be streamed according to ability, and a lot of girls would be a lot happier if they had single sex classes. Otherwise it provides ample opportunity for sproty boys to take the piss out of everyone else.

Me too, morningpaper. The prevailing attitude in PE seems to be to show up the ones who aren't as good, whereas in other lessons if you struggle you get support.

Goes back to Marina's point I suppose.

good post coldy

yes hockey is grim

and i was good at it and got picked for the team. Teacher said 'Enid you are a born hockey player' I was sooooo horrified and found it so uncool I deliberately played really badly after that.

You made the point so much better, Colditz

but htink its the team mentality you get in sport/
liek why do rugby players dress up in chinos and blazers to go to a mtach?

oh I really SHOULD parp myself...
I even took up further MATHS to get out of PE.
I HATED the way that the top sporty types were the heroes and the top achievers got a kicking behind the bike sheds
dancing is exactly the thing. salsa should be on the bloody national curriculum if you ask me.
morningpaper, yesyesyesyes

pe teacher once found me in the 6th form hiding under a desk int he library to get out off hockey

thing is I think id have quite liked sport - am jolly and teamy and not bad at it but just never saw th e point.

I used to arrange dentist appointments to coincide with pe lessons. Them I used to go and sit in the Copper Kettle and eat fried eggs.

Hatd, hated hated PE.

Cod how did you manage at our alma mater? All those PE students and no less than five uni hockey teams (just for the men). I was appalled.
Salsa for the National Curriculum NOW!