What is a non-competitive sports day??

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

I have just witnessed my first non-competitive sports day, and am devastated. I was expecting my hyperactive, can't-sit-still-in-the-class-room-long-enough-to-learn-much daughter to ace all the races, jumps and other sports events, as usual, but no.

The bloody fat-arse, sitting-playing-computer-games, neeky kids have ruined her one chance to shine by whining so much when they don't win anything, that sports day is now NON BLOODY COMPETITIVE!

I'll be more than happy to have sports day as non competitive if they do the same with SATs and GCSE's, in the meantime, let my daughter be better than the other kids at something will you!!

Title changed from "What the F**k is a non-competitive sports day??!" - The Administrator

[mockney piers]

Hasn't it been that way for years now? I thought it all kicked in a couple of years after I left school ('91).

Apparently Brown wants to scrap the non-competitive onsense as he instils victorian values in the country, very 21st century!!

Mind you it's the geeks who are all uber-competitive playing counterstrike and wii bowling.

[MadWorld74]

Why dont you get her to join a local athletics club for kids (seriously)

I wished my parents had made me join, maybe I would have escaped the Bonkers Fairy. (she comes in the middle of the night and sprinkles nuts on you)

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

I don't think they could have got away with it on my old estate! I might just have to pack up and move back to Elephant, It's all too much for me to take in.

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

She does Taekwondo and dance and swimming and climbing on everything taller than her, but that's not the point.

She now has no way of showing the brainy kids that she is better than them at something, so they will leave school thinking they are the bees knees, when they aren't.....ok... maybe that's the whole idea!

Tony Blair was crap at sports, and hated feeling inferior to anyone, so he's reconstructed all the schools with posh or neeky kids in, in such a way that their superiority will never be called into question.

Now I've got it.

"Mind you it's the geeks who are all uber-competitive playing counterstrike and wii bowling" - exactly! The only competition allowed now, is on THEIR terms!!

[mockney piers]

:D ha ha

In all fairness school policy shouldn't be dictated by kids in specs.

And careful with the geek slating CWALD!! ;-P

[Ladygooner]

Not sure it was anything to do with Tony Blair - I thought the parents had requested it to be non-competitive?

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

or kids with fat arses

[*Bob*]

CWALD.. be honest.. you're just cheesed-off because you don't get to kick ass in the parents sack race.

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

It's true I was raring to leave the other parents in the dust, but it's more than that.

It was my daughter's time to kick ass too, and that was cruelly taken away from her by adults who probably lost every race they entered at school or felt intimidated by kids bigger and stronger than them in an age when brains wasn't worshiped as it should have been (in their eyes - not mine!).

[spadetownboy]

think you,ll find cwald that the sports days are actually competitive the only difference is that prizes are no longer handed out to the winners.

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

Nope - it was all group stuff. Being great at sports and being stuck with a load of moany fatties is not my idea of a great sports day as far as I'm concerned!

[*Bob*]

I thought the 'story' was that schools were under pressure to make sports days non-competitive because over-zealous sporty parents were making things a nightmare for all (teachers and children)

[James]

This will prepare them perfectly for the real world where people never need to compete with each other at all. And when you fail a job interview you get a kiss on the lips and a consolation prize.

[*Bob*]

Crikey. Which jobs have you applied for, James?

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

But what about over zealous academic parents making our lives a misery. Why is academic competition something to be applauded, but sporting competition something to be avoided?

Because the people deciding this crap are academic, not sporty.

[Asset]

My son's infant school had the non-competitive thing but his junior school doesn't. They had a swimming gala last week and there were definite winners and losers.

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

Asset - She is in year 3 so they don't really have that excuse.

James - exactly!

[*Bob*]

I think most parents probably agree with you, CWALD (despite the slightly, er, 'vengeful' air to your postings on this matter).

I know I do. Children can't be good at everything, and they need to find out what they are good at.

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

Bob - Sorry, but I'm still mightily p&*@%d off about the whole thing and likely to need to rant for at least another hour!

I might request she sit group GCSE's with a bunch of brainy kids to even it up when she gets to year 11.

[*Bob*]

I think it's a total load of stinky old balls.

With childhood obesity on the rise I think we should be out there prodding them sticks to run round a track, not telling them it doesn't matter if they don't even try.

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

Bob - couldn't agree with you more

[SeanMacGabhann]

I for one am glad CWALD has re-found her feisty setting ;-)

Isn't one of the arguments for non-competitive sports days (and I'm not saying I'm for them) that the reason people get so competitive and ruthless in the workplace is that they are (or were) encouraged to compete at an early age - so if we take that competitiveness out of them in school it will lead to a nicer world etc ?? Maybe that was just one of the arguments

And if I was in CWALD's shoes this morning I would be fuming too - I would run 'em all into the ground ;-)

[Asset]

I also agree that it is stupid PC gone mad stuff - I didn't make that clear in my posting.

I was jumping up and down and saying "you won you won" when my son won his 'non-competitive' race in the infants' school, to disapproving looks from some other parents (parents of the losers ha ha), they did have actual races just nobody acknowledged a winner, I think that's worse. I wasn't going to ignore his victory.

[Asset]

Oh Sean - you are always the voice of reason aren't you? Come on get riled.