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team picking in primary school

  • 17-10-2008 11:36am
    #1
    autumngirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11 ✭


    this is my first post. what do others think of children in primary schools being allowed to pick the teams in sport or pe time. i think this promotes pecking order and bullying and popularity contests. it is not a big deal for a teacher to divide them up into 2 teams and avoid the awuful pain suffered by the unfortunates who are always picked last.


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  • #2
    byhookorbycrook
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 12,514 Mod ✭✭✭✭byhookorbycrook


    Much easier if teacher gives each child a letter, a/b and all the as go together and likewise the bs .She can also arrange to have two more even teams


  • #3
    Catari Jaguar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,649 ✭✭✭Catari Jaguar


    Does that still happen in this day and age???

    I would never in a million years use that method to pick teams. I hated it in school! Just do the A,B thing. Or if you need say, 4 teams of 5 kids, play a game where you call a number and they rush to get into a group of that amount. So call "5" last and whatever groups they randomly end up in is their team!


  • #4
    autumngirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11 ✭autumngirl


    I love your idea. I mentioned it to teacher in question , she said she allows different children to pick each week but i think this does not solve the problem


  • #5
    autumngirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11 ✭autumngirl


    Its good to know there are some enlightened people out there


  • #6
    byhookorbycrook
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 12,514 Mod ✭✭✭✭byhookorbycrook


    I always think of the line in Janis Ian song "at 17" girls whose names were never called when choosing sides at basketball


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  • #7
    byhookorbycrook
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 12,514 Mod ✭✭✭✭byhookorbycrook


    and letting different children choose each week still doesn't help..as it's the same groups of children who get picked first-and last, whoever is choosing.


  • #8
    8k2q1gfcz9s5d4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,616 ✭✭✭8k2q1gfcz9s5d4


    autumngirl wrote: »
    this is my first post. what do others think of children in primary schools being allowed to pick the teams in sport or pe time. i think this promotes pecking order and bullying and popularity contests. it is not a big deal for a teacher to divide them up into 2 teams and avoid the awuful pain suffered by the unfortunates who are always picked last.

    tba i was nearly always picked last when we played football at lunch because i was sh*t! didnt have an effect on me, and shouldnt really have an effect on kids. i think parents look into this stuff way to much, and kids are worse off bacause of it. school is about not only about learning, its about new experiences, and one of those experiences is when things dont go their way.


  • #9
    KateF
    Closed Accounts Posts: 244 ✭✭KateF


    Nyla Uptight Newlywed wrote: »
    tba i was nearly always picked last when we played football at lunch because i was sh*t! didnt have an effect on me, and shouldnt really have an effect on kids. i think parents look into this stuff way to much, and kids are worse off bacause of it. school is about not only about learning, its about new experiences, and one of those experiences is when things dont go their way.
    I don't think its a matter of parents 'looking into this stuff too much' and just because it didn't affect you does not mean it won't affect another child. I would never dream of letting children pick their own teams, as a pecking order will always arise and its the same children being left last the whole time.


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