Why is school sport always about competition ?
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@Tubemeister @afewbugs @Lilysea @sean Beatings is before my time, although PE teachers were very good at "not seeing" hockey sticks misused as such...
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@emilyvanartist @sean ^^ this. It's a pile of perverse incentives driving schools to "achieve" in sport as elsewhere... the rot of competition is everywhere
@phlash @emilyvanartist and just not enough collaboration
Like kids should routinely learn by helping younger kids learn - it's how it works in the real world of work
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@Lilysea @afewbugs @sean dunno if this happened elsewhere but I've heard the line "No, you're not unable, you are unwilling" many many times when I couldn't do an exercise. Sure it turned me off for many years.
Years later when I was really encouraged by an instructor I became good enough that people started calling me an athlete. My automatic response was "who, me?"
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@Lilysea @afewbugs @sean dunno if this happened elsewhere but I've heard the line "No, you're not unable, you are unwilling" many many times when I couldn't do an exercise. Sure it turned me off for many years.
Years later when I was really encouraged by an instructor I became good enough that people started calling me an athlete. My automatic response was "who, me?"
@qwazix @Lilysea @afewbugs I remember being told to try harder when I couldn't do pull ups
Now I realise it wasn't willpower that was missing - but time in the gym and aiming to beat my own personal best - because getting better is something we can all do and learning to work at something would be more useful character building
