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.

Because our lesbian PE teacher used to whip the curtains back on the showers to check we weren't cheating by leaving our knickers on.

Agree with Colditz.

A PE teacher who told me to play table tennis when I was 16.

'Ping pong? At my age? I don't think so!"
And the only thing she could splutter was
'It's called table tennis!'

God I hated them.

I actually liked table tennis - but only because one of my best friends had a table in a very small room so you ended up playing table squash and hitting it off the walls. Wouldn't have been the same anywhere else...

I have zero hand to eye coordination. The only exercise for me with ping pong is repeated crawling around the floor picking the a ball up. Replace the word 'floor' with 'shrubbery' and you have my experience with tennis.
So agree with streaming for PE, and more non-competitive options, eg yoga.

It's also completely weird about who went into teaching PE. I cannot think of a single lesbian of my extensive lesbian acquaintaince who enjoyed PE either (they'd all rather be sitting on the sofa with a nice glass of red wine) so who are these crazed deranged knicker-sniffers?

Not that my PE teacher was, I think - she was far too wholesome and jolly for Sapphic urges. They'd have made her a damn sight more human IMO.

Aloha, that's my experience of table tennis and tennis too!

As for squash...how many times is it possible to miss a ball?!

I used to play pool while others more energetic than me played squash at the local squash club. Far safer for all concerned!

ds has been "chosen", not keen but not so negative as he was (more upset that he is missing his climbing lesson). Not sure how I'm supposed to get his kit pristine from collecting it after school tomorrow for him on Saturday morning !

dh went to the school last night for a Parent/School debate on All roundedness and Excellence in which the issue of how to develop the most able while allowing every child to benefit from specialised teaching and a wide range of opportunites. On the sport side this involves balancing elite training with participation in a wider variety of sports both competitive and non competitive.