Run For The Hills!

[hantsbear]

Every four years, England gets infected with a particularly virulent disease.  Red crosses on white backgrounds appear everywhere and the media whips the populace (or at least those who give a damn) into a rabid frenzy, using metaphors usually used during World War II.

Except me.

I loathe and despise football soccer.  It has rather a lot to do with being forced to play it at school and being generally cr@p at it, enduring the wrath of the rest of the team along with the inevitable humiliation of being the person left at the end when sides were selected.  And fought over as to who didn't get me.  Major boost to the old self esteem.

If I could, I would be on a plane right now to somewhere that didn't give a damn.  Alas, I can't.  I will just look forward to the inevitable schadenfreude when Our Beloved Boys get kicked out of the competition for being, well generally, cr@p.

It's much more fun than watching Great Britain come last in the Eurovision Song Contest again.

Comments

[furr-a-bruin.livejournal.com]

I disliked PhysEd class, but I mostly had instructors for it that weren't abjectly horrendous. (At the time, I thought it was awful - but I've learned that other people had it far worse.) The usual problem from what I've heard of other people's trials is that many schools seem to think it's appropriate to have the same people who coach the sports teams be the PhysEd instructors, or vice-versa. This does have some validity - but the problem is that PhysEd class is, ideally, a place to teach kids to take care of their bodies, learn to enjoy some form of physical activity and set them on a road to being healthy adults. Bringing sports-team competitiveness into it is a recipe for making those who start out being less physically accomplished hate the very idea of being active.

Some of the instructors were better than others; a couple I remember had interesting ways of preventing the scene you describe with two "team captains" trying to avoid having a person on their teams by randomizing the selection process in various ways.

[maxauburn.livejournal.com]

"Bringing sports-team competitiveness into it is a recipe for making those who start out being less physically accomplished hate the very idea of being active."

I agree with you 100% there!

It is too bad that public shools have mostly taken a "One size fits all" approach to education.

I know that schools don't have the money they really need to make education work as well as it could, but there must be ways to change things simply and cheaply enough, just by using one's gray matter.