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>>Jennifer Kay typed:
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>>> P.S. Hotch, how did you perform at Sport's day?
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>Hotch replied:
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>>Anyway, I had an interesting conversation with one of
>>the other parents who is a teacher at a state school.
>>I knew he has an older boy in addition to the one in
>>the same year as mine. I commented that he must be
>>bored with sports days. He said this was the first
>>proper one he'd been to. At the school where he works
>>they do not encourage "competitive" sports like running.
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>>erk!
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Very sad that and seems to be fairly common this end of the island. Communal
games, team approach and if one has to do a first/last game then downplay
the winner and all the rest get big "I took part" stickers.
I queried this in the context of GB going down the tubes of competitive
international sport and that life itself is a competition and was put down
with the scathing "There is only one winner and many losers, it is for the
greater good to make the many feel better" :-((
Is this the way forward? Surely most of us can do something well? I remember
one boy who was crap at academia and sport but was immensely popular because
of his humour and ability to fart with his hand and armpit (combo)! ;-))
Paul Attwood
GP Thanet
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