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.

i shagged them instead
that was my trick

lol colditz were you in cambridge?

there was a copper kettl in gibraltar

As a librarian I must say I heartily approve of people hiding under my tables to avoid PE. Ever the sanctuary of the beleaguered intellectual

ah the bliss of being sports captain and winner of Literature cup in the same year

it never really got better for Enid after that

Colditz - Yes! you're right of course
if maths was taught in the singularly rubbish way that PE is, then there would be a national outcry. other teachers spend a lot of their time making their subjects relevant and interesting and accessible and fun - why is it only PE which is allowed to be such utter purgatory? (good word Marina)

Cod . I tried that just ONCE and that was a BAD mistake.

the men were very dishy on w ednsday night

Well I hated it because I was no good at it. Also, as you get older, it becomes embarrassing as it is to do with your body and who isn't sensitive about their bodies when they are teenage?

Also, I hated the picking of teams as I was always picked last - that is extremely damaging to the ego. It still haunts me now!

Plus showers: stark naked in front of a teacher you hated? That is ritual humiliation in my book. You could only get out of it by mentioning the unmentionable - you were having a period.

The joke is, I used to be a good swimmer - the local swimming club wanted me for their team but I wasn't a joiner even in those days - and our family holidays were taken every year in the mountains and I was (and still am) an indefatigable mountain climber - met dh mountain hutting in the Alps. So physically, I am actually quite strong, but that never came out in those awful games of hockey and netball on frost bitten, fog shrouded fields.

you see thats my point

Exactly Cod. POINTLESS. You run all the way up the pitch while some power-hungry, sadistic, testosterone-crazed lesbian bellows at you from the touchline, then when you get within a metre of the ball someone whacks it 3 miles down to the other end of the pitch. Only someone with the thought-processes of a golden retriever would feel compelled to follow.

Not Cambridge, no. I had a disaffected youf in the sticks.

His name was Dave. BOOM BOOM!

god this thread is like some horrible half remembered nightmare:
hockey on frosty mornings
hockey balls in the shins
sadistic PE teachers
not getting picked for the team
having to tell sadistic PE teacher you have your period
taking off your training bra in front of the whole class
having unfashionable trainers
cross country runs, dodging phlegm and dog poo
"Right then, one hour of Hockey/Netball/Cross Country Running, chop chop!"
aaaaargh.... think I might go back to bed

It's alright HC. It's over now. Put the kettle on and help yourself to a kit kat.

'Exactly Cod. POINTLESS. You run all the way up the pitch while some power-hungry, sadistic, testosterone-crazed lesbian bellows at you from the touchline'

You must have had Miss Berman, my 5th grade PE teacher!

Our PE classes were all like this and then they wondered why so many of us got our parents to opt us out.

I did ballet lessons so was able to opt out from age 11.

HC you have reminded me of another reason I hated it: when I went to secondary school, for gymnastics (oh horror, gymnastics, at least in hockey you could run up and down the pitch but gymnastics was pure torture from beginning to end) but anyway, in gymnastics, you either wore a leotard or your PE shirt without the skirt, ie showing your knickers, which for the occasion were supposed to be navy blue. As I was crap at PE, there was no way my mother was going to buy me a leotard, so at the age of 12, 13, 14 I had to do gymnastics in my knickers like a 5 year old. How humiliating is that?

Lonely
I was once a climber, too. If they'd given us the chance to select, say, an orienteering course as PE, dang! I'd have gone at the weekends for something fun like that!

Also, a much better life skill than running up and down a pitch, IMO.

The compass is your friend!

we had gym knickers

no leotards (too poncy for Enids clearly gordonstoun like school)

When we went to the Lake District on camp, guess who was first up the mountains? Had all the right gear? Knew her way without guides? Agree, Expat, orienteering I would have enjoyed. Rock climbing I took up voluntarily after school. Gymnastics, games and athletics: I never touch them with a barge pole then or now.

I loved hockey. Gave me the chance to 'legitimately' crack the ankles of all those girls who teased me about not being able to play tennis (see below)
Hated netball - what pea-brain would invent a rule that says once you have the ball you can only take one step - wtf is all that about?
Was crap at tennis - had no hand to eye coordination - yet now play club badminton.

I hated P.E, not because I was lazy, it just wasn't my thing and some of the teachers made it as unenjoyable as they possibly could.

During netball once, i scored, i was really pleased but the teacher said I hadn't done it properly. The damn thing went in the net didn't it, what was the prob.

Then same teacher told me off because during the high jump, although I got over the bar without knocking it off, it wasn't good enough.

Alot of P.E teachers I feel are only interested in the sproty kids and all the others to them are a waste of time.

With a bit more encouagement I probably would have enjoyed it a bit more.

I regularly used to get out of P.E with various notes from my dad (well from me). I haven't quite decided what will happen if any of my kids aren't keen on it but I certainly will consider the option of writing them a note to get out of it.

PE teacher who insisted sport was good for girls having periods? After one of my sisters fainted during PE (she had heavy periods) I was the only girl allowed to sit them out Amazing how often you can have periods (for years before they started ). I like swimming and liked squash until I got injured once too often and I'm not good at either.

Agree we should encourage dancing but I'd like to see more twai kondo or something similar. Its very good for aggressive boys because they have to learn control and it boosts confidence in the shyer ones.

Mixed football doesn't usually work as the boys won't pass to the girls - why do schools allow it? When I played fun football with friends only the girls were allowed to score so the boys HAD to pass

LM - agree, PE in your pants, past the age of 6 - total humiliation.

who was thatnutty?