Any P.E. teachers about? I have a question.

krlyr

We never had to change into PE kit if we missed a lesson but we had to stand outside and watch for the whole thing. I finally ended up getting excused to go to the library after about a year of not doing PE due to a chronic shoulder condition (we hadn't been told this was an option!) so I could do something more productive with my time, but as others have said, had to provide a doctors note for it.

thegirlintheattic

POPPYOSCAR wrote: »

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Or it can also make the pupil feel that school rules are unreasonable and that they cannot wait to leave and go to college!!

Students cannot pick and choose what to do and what not to do in the current system. I HATED PE for the first few years at school, so I can understand why kids try to get out of it, but it is part of the curriculum. As such they have to, where possible/reasonable, participate. Would we be having this discussion if the subject in question was maths or English I wonder?

Many children can't wait to get to college, it's an unfortunate fact, but I don't think being asked to participate as much as possible in PE is the main driving factor for most of those children who are disengaged.

SuzieSue

thegirlintheattic wrote: »

Many children can't wait to get to college, it's an unfortunate fact, but I don't think being asked to participate as much as possible in PE is the main driving factor for most of those children who are disengaged.

How is freezing to death in a PE kit with a foot in plaster participating in PE?

The main objection is the pupil being cold unnecessarily. English and maths aren't studied outside so it isn't a problem.

Spendless

Think it must vary school to school and around the country cos I've just asked 12yo son this question and he says that those not participating 'help out' by watching them or timing them or making suggestion to how they can improve but it's not in their PE kit.

cazziebo

ok - here's a parent just wanting to mump her gums...

I think schools should rethink the psychology behind some of these ludicrous rules. Having to wear "lost property" probably unwashed is actually quite degrading.

My own daughter, sporty and beautiful, suffered from terrible acne on her back and chest. This wasn't just a few spots - it really was awful. The PE teacher insisted that pupils had to wear only swimsuits. If she had been allowed to wear a tee shirt over (as she did for training with the club) she would happily have participated. As it was, she completely lost interest in not just swimming, but all of PE.

I do think some teachers are missing a sensitivity gene. (I also think some are absolute inspirational saints!)

thegirlintheattic

SuzieSue wrote: »

How is freezing to death in a PE kit with a foot in plaster participating in PE?

The main objection is the pupil being cold unnecessarily. English and maths aren't studied outside so it isn't a problem.

As I said before, if you have an injury like that or a proper reason not to do PE, you do not get changed, and depending on the student and weather, may not go out at all. Our PE kit is trackies so students are not freezing, and students who are not doing PE are not sent out in the depths of winter. Even though most students choose to go outside for lunch in just a shirt and jumper all year round round here.

My school seems to work a lot like Spendless' except those students who turn up saying they don't feel to well or their arm hurts at bit etc. are asked to get changed into trackies, and participate as much as possible. From the few PE lessons I've covered, students who turn up with a minor complaint wanting out of PE usually join in by the end of the lesson, once they get fed up watching everyone else having fun, hence needing to be wearing their PE kit.

SuzieSue

thegirlintheattic wrote: »

As I said before, if you have an injury like that or a proper reason not to do PE, you do not get changed, and depending on the student and weather, may not go out at all. Our PE kit is trackies so students are not freezing,

The OP wasn't talking about your school. Your school seems reasonable, the OP's doesn't.

aliasojo

cazziebo wrote: »

I think schools should rethink the psychology behind some of these ludicrous rules.

My feelings exactly.

Spendless

thegirlintheattic wrote: »

My school seems to work a lot like Spendless' except those students who turn up saying they don't feel to well or their arm hurts at bit etc. are asked to get changed into trackies, and participate as much as possible.

Ahh yes, I did give son the example of someone who was on crutches or an arm in a sling not someone who had just claimed to feel ill. I should imagine someone saying that would be asked to get changed and join in as much as possible. His school gives detention for any piece of missing kit.

aliasojo

SuzieSue wrote: »

The OP wasn't talking about your school. Your school seems reasonable, the OP's doesn't.

The thing is though, I don't believe our school is the exception. I do believe there are other schools who work the same way, judging by what I've heard/read.