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Naomi Pardue wrote in message
Uhhh... so you don't think that it might be, in some way, helpful for kids to learn how to play soccer/softball/baseketball/volleyball/ etc. Not at all. Getting picked last and hating every minute of gym class to play those stupid games and get humiliated did nothing for me as an adult. I'd much rather have today's PE have aerobics/weight lifting or training/eating healthy/swimming for an all around healthy attitude. If the kids are interested in soccer or other team sports, there is enough after-school activities in those areas to fill a lifetime of sports for the kid. If a PE class wants children to know the rules of games, then something like that could be in a book form and have written tests. -- Sue mom to three girls |
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"toto" wrote in message
... On 27 Sep 2003 12:36:09 GMT, OSPAM (Naomi Pardue) wrote: Uhhh... so you don't think that it might be, in some way, helpful for kids to learn how to play soccer/softball/baseketball/volleyball/ etc. Frankly, no. I see no reason to learn these games unless you like to play them. But how would you ever know whether you like to play them if you don't ever learn to play them? -- Be well, Barbara (Julian [6], Aurora [4], and Vernon's [18mo] mom) This week's special at the English Language Butcher Shop: "She rose her eyebrows at Toby" -- from "O' Artful Death", by Sarah Stewart Taylor Daddy: You're up with the chickens this morning. Aurora: No, I'm up with my dolls! All opinions expressed in this post are well-reasoned and insightful. Needless to say, they are not those of my Internet Service Provider, its other subscribers or lackeys. Anyone who says otherwise is itchin' for a fight. -- with apologies to Michael Feldman |
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In article zFHdb.4204$hp5.1888@fed1read04, Circe says...
"toto" wrote in message .. . On 27 Sep 2003 12:36:09 GMT, OSPAM (Naomi Pardue) wrote: Uhhh... so you don't think that it might be, in some way, helpful for kids to learn how to play soccer/softball/baseketball/volleyball/ etc. Frankly, no. I see no reason to learn these games unless you like to play them. But how would you ever know whether you like to play them if you don't ever learn to play them? OK - Barbara - let's go parachute jumping TOMORROW. Then we'll go visit Stever Irwin and wrestle snakes. What?? Why not?? - how would you know if you don't try :-) While I've allowed that a legit purpose of PE would be to expose kids to various sports, I can perfectly well understand that many people who don't like athletics much, and/or dont' like team sports much, could reasonably conclude that they won't much like yet another team sport. Also - unless PE is set up for a substantially long time on a single sport with a substantial amount of coaching - the kids will not be learning how to play the sport anyway. Banty |
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On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 13:38:58 -0700, "Circe" wrote:
But how would you ever know whether you like to play them if you don't ever learn to play them? You can learn enough about them to know you won't like them without ever playing them at all. I liked some sports and not others. And I knew that without having to play them in gym. There is no sound, no cry in all the world that can be heard unless someone listens .. The Outer Limits |
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Well, that addresses part of the problem. But then you have the less
talented players - this expression being especially appropos here - standing out in left field! Only if the PE teacher allows it. Ok. this month the kids are playing softball. Today, Susie plays left field. Next class, she plays first base. Next week,she's on second base, and so on. Everyone plays all the positions. (And in other team sports, where the activity levels are more equitablly distributed than in softball, this is even less of an issue.) So it's really only good for the purpose of getting kids exposed to the sports and rules. That's a pretty good argument for team sports in PE I'd say that there are many goals for PE, with that being one of them. As long as team sports aren't the only thing being done in the class, I don't see a problem with them. Naomi CAPPA Certified Lactation Educator (either remove spamblock or change address to to e-mail reply.) |
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Not at all. Getting picked last and hating every minute of gym class to play
those stupid games Soo... did you hate gym class because you were picked last (which I already said was a bad way to run team sports), or because you had to play the games? I was not athletic in school. (Not athletic now either.) but team sports were really no worse for me than anything else. We DIDN"T pick teams by having the captain pick kids most of the times (and yeah, whnen they did,I was usually picked last, or nearly so, and hated it). Naomi CAPPA Certified Lactation Educator (either remove spamblock or change address to to e-mail reply.) |
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: I did OK in PE when we were doing individual activities, and especially
: non-competitive ones (like dancing -- which I know CAN be done : competitively!) But all I learned about team sports in PE was to : detest, loathe and fear them. Ditto. -- ColoradoSkiBum |
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: I hated playing the games, I hated knowing that no one wanted me : on their teams (no matter how the teams were chosen), I hated the : disappointed groans of my team mates when they saw the ball coming : towards me (and the laughs and derision when I made an error), I hated : knowing I was no good and not likely to get better . . . : : I probably ought to add that I was incredibly unpopular in grade school, : and things didn't get better for me until about my last year of high : school. PE was only one arena where that played out, but it gave other : kids LOTS of opportunities to let me know what they thought of me. I don't know how old you are, but I'm betting that those experiences have had an enormous effect on you as an adult. Why would anyone want to put their child through that, just so they can grow up with a complete lack of self-confidence? -- ColoradoSkiBum |
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