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« Reply #1200 on: 15:23:19, 29-06-2007 » |
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I hated PE in school. We had it once a week.
But in college we had to have PE too and it was even worse. Have anybody tried to get with gears (ski and a costume) plus music from the day to get across Moscow on the subway.
One word can describe it: awful. And after that one had to run for several kilometers on ski.
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« Reply #1201 on: 09:04:53, 01-07-2007 » |
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I am sorry to say that I loved games... hockey, netball, tennis, athletics... but NOT gym. I had an accident in a gym lesson when we played Danish rounders inside.. in the gym. Second base was a glass door ( can you imagine that now?!!) I ran for it and put my hand through the window - badly damaging (permanently) a finger on my left hand... the only violinist in the school at the time!!!!
Such is life... and gym lessons!
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« Reply #1203 on: 14:18:17, 01-07-2007 » |
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I didn't like games at school either. It was boring. I couldn't see the point of kicking a ball around, although I quite like to watch football on television.
I never understood why games teachers could ignore those who weren't any good whilst the maths teacher, say, couldn't ignore those who couldn't do maths. I also went to a bog standard comp, a "one-size-fits-all" establishment and I found it odd that whereas academic achievement could never be recognized publically (we didn't have prizes) those who had done well in sport were regularly applauded in assemblies and given cups and certificates. I'm not a big fan of prizes myself but I never allow anyone to praise the comprehensive system unless he has been to such a school himself.
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« Reply #1204 on: 14:29:08, 01-07-2007 » |
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I think that the real problem comes when you graduate from that situation where everyone can take part and it doesn't matter if you are actually any good, to the competitive, nasty situation (and PE teachers are completely implicated in this!) and if you're not very good, you're made to feel like a failure across the board. I'm beginning to suspect that this could well be behind a lot of the problems that children (and later on adults) have with exercise/sport - it reminds them of being made to feel deeply inadequate.
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« Reply #1205 on: 16:48:48, 01-07-2007 » |
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The problem is that the world is too competitive. I don't like it when it is too competitive. However, people say that if there is no competition there is no improvements. It is raining here most of the time and my cloths are going to be on the line for days because I don't want to take them back. That is life.  |
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« Reply #1206 on: 18:14:09, 01-07-2007 » |
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« Reply #1207 on: 18:11:49, 02-07-2007 » |
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I think that the real problem comes when you graduate from that situation where everyone can take part and it doesn't matter if you are actually any good, to the competitive, nasty situation (and PE teachers are completely implicated in this!) and if you're not very good, you're made to feel like a failure across the board. I'm beginning to suspect that this could well be behind a lot of the problems that children (and later on adults) have with exercise/sport - it reminds them of being made to feel deeply inadequate. I think you're absolutely right, hh. I really didn't enjoy games at all at school - I was not naturally good at sport, which in combination with being quite shy meant I never really got any better and didn't know how to assert myself. The fact that the games teachers seemed much more interested in praising those who were already good rather than helping bring others out of themselves didn't help. I think another factor was that games is one subject which you can be really bad at while being good at almost every other subject, which meant that I wasn't used to having to ask for help and I think also that the games teachers looked down on people whose natural strengths lay in 'academic' subjects. Looking back, I feel I'd have turned out a much more rounded person (or done so much more quickly, to say the least) if I hadn't been implicitly allowed just to carry on being bad at games. It's quite patronising, actually, to assume that the bookish children don't want to be better at non-academic subjects. I was about 24 before I got over the idea that sport and exercise weren't for me, and I think my teachers would be amazed now to see me enjoying myself at the gym! |
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« Reply #1208 on: 18:30:55, 02-07-2007 » |
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These are interesting comments. I never found out whether I was any good at games or not, because I never put in any effort whatsoever. It just seemed to me a stupid way of spending time. I was fairly athletic - I did ballet and skating - but school games and gym just repelled me, as did the people who taught them. It was something about the clothes we had to wear, and the "team spirit", which was never my strong point. Why was I expected to support a team I hadn't chosen in the first place? I found it very silly, and I still do.
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« Reply #1209 on: 18:39:22, 02-07-2007 » |
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Well I've still not quite gotten over the whole school attitude to sport myself. Can only really tolerate solitary/non-competitative athletics. Thankfully, I live right next to a park, so I have no excuses.
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« Reply #1210 on: 20:53:16, 02-07-2007 » |
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« Reply #1211 on: 21:13:29, 02-07-2007 » |
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non-competitative is that *really* a word? I would hazard to guess that it is not, in fact, a word recognised by any dictionaries known to man. :/   |
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« Reply #1213 on: 00:37:13, 03-07-2007 » |
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Just watch it Tonybob! Remember, this beast has relatives!
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