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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

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.

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!!

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!).

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.

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 ;-)

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.

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