making kids line up to be picked for football is a form of child abuse.

I remember as a kid there was a system in Pt and games in which two
captains would pick kids for thier football team. Being dyspraxic
(although at the time I had never heard of this) I was always the last
to be choosen and even then it was made clear they did not want me.
It was awful its still with me now.
During the game I would try and avoid the ball as much as possible but
if it did come to me I would normally muck it up and be abused by me
team mates.
At the end of the match I would get abused again, the teachers did
nothing to stop this and often beaten up. Either way I would end
walking home along ( that if I did not get beaten up on the way home)
and then spend the next week leaving in dread.
Those memories of with me now and I belive that if still happens in
schools.
I know many people in the same position who have left school recently
and who have gone throught that same experience.
I think this practice is wrong and should be stopped.

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I remember as a kid there was a system in Pt and games in which two
captains would pick kids for thier football team. Being dyspraxic
(although at the time I had never heard of this) I was always the last
to be choosen and even then it was made clear they did not want me.
It was awful its still with me now.
During the game I would try and avoid the ball as much as possible but
if it did come to me I would normally muck it up and be abused by me
team mates.
At the end of the match I would get abused again, the teachers did
nothing to stop this and often beaten up. Either way I would end
walking home along ( that if I did not get beaten up on the way home)
and then spend the next week leaving in dread.
Those memories of with me now and I belive that if still happens in
schools.
I know many people in the same position who have left school recently
and who have gone throught that same experience.
I think this practice is wrong and should be stopped.

I think you should see a counselor about this. You clearly have unresolved
issues about this.

I do agree that this practice should be stopped.

Jeff

On 18 Aug 2005 06:37:36 -0700, wrote:

I know many people in the same position who have left school recently
and who have gone throught that same experience.
I think this practice is wrong and should be stopped.

It has been stopped in many schools, so get involved in whatever
school is local to you and talk to the PE people about it.

That won't stop it happening on the playground, but in schools it
may at least prevent kids from being chosen this way.


--
Dorothy

There is no sound, no cry in all the world
that can be heard unless someone listens ..

The Outer Limits

It happened to me too as a kid. When I think about all the sports team
injuries in high school, especially football, I'm grateful I was turned
away from sports.

There's always teams being chosen in school though, and where a child
is last in one area, he or she may be first in others. I was also
chosen last in a lot of sports (because I excel in one on one sports
rather than team sports) but when it came to math games and spelling
games I was first to be picked. Not to mention the classroom game, does
anyone remember a game called 7-up? most of the class puts their heads
down on their desk and puts their thumbs up. Then 3 or 4 kids would go
around and touch one thumb each, then those who were chosen would try
to figure out who touched them. Obviously if it was a friend, you'd
know.
Or perhaps I was in a particularily team oriented school?

Stasya

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"stasya" wrote:

There's always teams being chosen in school though, and where a child
is last in one area, he or she may be first in others. I was also
chosen last in a lot of sports (because I excel in one on one sports
rather than team sports) but when it came to math games and spelling
games I was first to be picked. Not to mention the classroom game, does
anyone remember a game called 7-up? most of the class puts their heads
down on their desk and puts their thumbs up. Then 3 or 4 kids would go
around and touch one thumb each, then those who were chosen would try
to figure out who touched them. Obviously if it was a friend, you'd
know.
Or perhaps I was in a particularily team oriented school?

Stasya


Most schools have stopped allowing students to "pick" teams in any area.

For kids like me, it was always a disaster. I was remarkably unpopular,
and even in the areas where I had talent, I was picked last. I can even
remember people offering things if they wouldn't have to take me.

It can be a horrid experience, and have as much to do with popularity as
with ability.
--
Children won't care how much you know until they know how much you care

"dragonlady" wrote in message
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Most schools have stopped allowing students to "pick" teams in any area.

Thank goodness!

For kids like me, it was always a disaster. I was remarkably unpopular,
and even in the areas where I had talent, I was picked last. I can even
remember people offering things if they wouldn't have to take me

It can be a horrid experience, and have as much to do with popularity as
with ability.

Yes. I even read about a study where they showed that the most
popular kids were seen to have the best ability, even when that
was obviously untrue.

They polled the kids and asked them who the most popular kids
were, then had those kids make deliberate errors in, IIRC,
volleyball. In another poll taken afterwards, the students still
rated the unpopular kids as the worst players.

Bizby

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I know many people in the same position who have left school recently
and who have gone throught that same experience.
I think this practice is wrong and should be stopped.

It sounds like your school had a problem with bullying more than
anything else. We can't shield our kids from every scrap of
competition just because it might hurt someone's feelings. We
compete in the adult world so you shouldn't protect them from that.

You know, I was the same at sports. Hopeless. I recall the team
picking ritual, to be called out *2nd* last was an achievement for
me However it never bothered me. So I was crap at sports,
so what? I was good at other things.

It may not have bothered you but it did bother me. During your
formative years you are very vulnerable and if you are made to feel
wothless as a child then that stays with you. There is not reason to
make children fo thrugh that.

As i said I am disabled , dyspraxic and dyslexic so its unrealistic to
expect me to learn the same way as other people. I learn differently in
one sense can't competed unless I can do things on my own terms.


It sounds like your school had a problem with bullying more than
anything else. We can't shield our kids from every scrap of
competition just because it might hurt someone's feelings. We
compete in the adult world so you shouldn't protect them from that.

You know, I was the same at sports. Hopeless. I recall the team
picking ritual, to be called out *2nd* last was an achievement for
me However it never bothered me. So I was crap at sports,
so what? I was good at other things.

It may not have bothered you but it did bother me. During your
formative years you are very vulnerable and if you are made to feel
wothless as a child then that stays with you. There is not reason to
make children fo thrugh that.

As i said I am disabled , dyspraxic and dyslexic so its unrealistic to
expect me to learn the same way as other people. I learn differently in
one sense can't competed unless I can do things on my own terms.


It sounds like your school had a problem with bullying more than
anything else. We can't shield our kids from every scrap of
competition just because it might hurt someone's feelings. We
compete in the adult world so you shouldn't protect them from that.

You know, I was the same at sports. Hopeless. I recall the team
picking ritual, to be called out *2nd* last was an achievement for
me However it never bothered me. So I was crap at sports,
so what? I was good at other things.