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PE at school. Have they got the methods wrong?
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And to give the boys a full on wet t-shirt experience when it rained. Which it did. A lot. Being Wales and all that.
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I agree with most posts here, can't believe it's the one subject that seems to have remained relatively unchanged for decades! I also hated PE but for me it was only because I was shy. I'd have loved having a go if it had just been me, but of course being what it was PE usually meant having your 5 minute go in front of the whole class who had nothing to do but watch you! Can't remember playing a lot of team games, we had mostly athletics so sprinting in small groups and lots of individual events. Self fulfilling prophecy- I'd have done way better if I was on my own but because everyone was looking I'd get embarrassed and mess up then I'd really have something to be embarrassed about!
Oh and number two thing that made me hate it- they made me take my glasses off!! Now they obviously didn't know how short sighted I was (extremely) but having me spend 80 mins a week in a huge field unable to distinguish who someone 10 metres away was wasn't fun. As soon as I grew up and realised noone made you take your glasses off at the gym I signed up immediatelybut I still react with horror if any of my mates suggest I take a class with other people! Exercising is an individual activity for me for sure...
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See l had no respect for our pe teachers who'd send us out in the rain to do cross country while they stayed behind and drank coffee!
PE can be fun if it's made to be, sure kids won't melt in the rain or snow but not many of them would find it fun to be huddled around outside in such weather.
I enjoyed swimming, rounders, track running, netball, badminton and tennis but winters consisted of cross country running and hockey getting your ankles bashed, no thanks!
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I'm dyspraxic - so PE was an absolute joy -got yelled at for four years and then "skived" the last two years as frankly I CBA'd.
Funnily enough I was quite a good shot - and used to practice for hours with a longbow imagining I was shooting a certain PE teacher in the bahookie.
She is still there - I am 42 now now so she must be what, 200 by now???
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Ohhh I hated it. Still gives me a bad feeling thinking about it now. However, we were never made to go outside in bad weather conditions which I suppose is a bonus.
I only ever enjoyed PE when we had it mixed girls and boys as it always seemed like we were given much more fun things to do. The competitiveness of netball and such just fueled bullying in my experience, with some of the louder girls calling other girls names for not being good enough. I hate sports now.
I ended up conveniently always 'forgetting' my kit which meant that I was made to litter-pick which was perfectly fine by me. I've always been almost underweight for my size but was told off on a regular basis for not participating whereas some of the larger girls (I feel quite bad saying this) were allowed to not take part every week without getting any stick.
I'm probably just being a massive whinge but PE at school has put me off almost anything competitive for life, as I just assume its going to end up with somebody taking it far too seriously and it getting nasty.0 -
I'm another one who hated PE. I'm in no way sporty so was hopeless and always picked last which just makes you feel worse. I was horrified when I went to a new school and rather than shorts had to wear blue knickers with a gym skirt! :eek:
In 5th year they took those of us who were hopeless 10 pin bowling which was much more enjoyable.Lost my soulmate so life is empty.
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I agree with most posts here, can't believe it's the one subject that seems to have remained relatively unchanged for decades! I also hated PE but for me it was only because I was shy. I'd have loved having a go if it had just been me, but of course being what it was PE usually meant having your 5 minute go in front of the whole class who had nothing to do but watch you! Can't remember playing a lot of team games, we had mostly athletics so sprinting in small groups and lots of individual events. Self fulfilling prophecy- I'd have done way better if I was on my own but because everyone was looking I'd get embarrassed and mess up then I'd really have something to be embarrassed about!
Oh and number two thing that made me hate it- they made me take my glasses off!! Now they obviously didn't know how short sighted I was (extremely) but having me spend 80 mins a week in a huge field unable to distinguish who someone 10 metres away was wasn't fun. As soon as I grew up and realised noone made you take your glasses off at the gym I signed up immediatelybut I still react with horror if any of my mates suggest I take a class with other people! Exercising is an individual activity for me for sure...
I was forced to take my glasses off, too. But for me, someone 10 foot away may as well have been in the next county.
And yet they still expected me to throw, catch or hit various balls and punished you when you couldn't.I could dream to wide extremes, I could do or die: I could yawn and be withdrawn and watch the world go by.Yup you are officially Rock n Roll0 -
So does the vast majority of replies on this thread not just prove my point?
Surely it's time for schools to rethink their PE provision before they turn off yet another generation?
I can feel a mission coming on......:rotfl:Herman - MP for all!0 -
I want to know why nobody told me about sports bras when I was running between rounders bases with my arms folded across my chest to avoid putting an eye out!0
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noooooooo.... how can you think such a thing of PE teachers, they are the salt of the earth...
Some of my fondest memories are of being stuck in the hockey or lacrosse goal, in the rain or snow, without a clue as to what was going on in the rest of the field until a hoard of burly (yes they were) girls appeared out of the the myopic fog that doubled for 'eyesight' or a ball went whizzing past my ear (that's if I was lucky, more often than not they appeared to aim straight for me).
I am joking of course, I blame the PE/Games mistresses and masters for instilling me with a life-long loathing of what they laughingly call 'sport'. It isn't sport, I have only ever met 2 PE teachers who weren't sadistic bullies. Sometimes they're intelligent as well but it seems intelligence, common sense and empathy are a rare commodity where sporting talent is concerned. They are not the salt of the earth they are the salt in the wound!
Personally I put it down to an inability (or all too often often an unwillingness) to understand that not everyone has the same level of feedback from, or control over, their body. I've had this conversation with people I know who enjoy running or other sports and they just don't 'get' that I have to actively think about walking in order to prevent myself falling over fresh air.
Like others I was labelled as useless at sport but actually I cycled 7 to 9 miles each way to school, I thought nothing of walking that distance home from my saturday jobs, and I could swim well enough that the teachers would use me to demonstrate strokes. Oh yes, and I had a tennis serve that a Wimbledon champion thought was excellent - but I couldn't follow through for love nor money LOL. I was lean and fit! But I bunked off games whenever I could - even employing tactics such as using make up to simulate severe bruising...
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