Someone out there, please defend or explain the reasons for non-competitive sport at primary school

[Balls]

I thought I got it - you know give everynoe a chance to participate, but I've just come back from a shambles of a swimming gala where the not so able swimmers were humiliated in public by desperately trying to participate from the back and the able swimmers were not allowed to compete in their strongest strokes. What if the able swimmers fail at everything but swimming and this is their chance to shine in something? I'm prepared to be persuaded but right now I think it is PC gone bonkers.

hatwoman - that does sound like a good idea.

we did it in hosues
noe oen cared who won really

hatwoman - dd1's school does a similar thing, there are only 96 pupils in the school and on sports day they are put into teams of mixed ages/abilities and do a mix or relay and individual races. The problem is that I can remember 'letting my team down' in relay races b/c I am pants at the type of thing - I got so much grief and can still feel the misery now.

Dd1 had a great time though