Outdoor PE in cold weather

[scargill]

Do you think schools should take parents views into consideration when deciding if it is too cold?

 

Yes they should ring each parent prior to going outside to see whattheir childs tollerence level is.

[scargill]

I thought it was cruel when I had to do it, I thought it was cruel when my child had to do it, I think it's cruel now my grandchildren are doing it and ,until PE teachers get a life and realise that not all of us are Fatima Whitbread wannabees, it will continue to be cruel

 

only cruel for the children that don't want to do it.

[Hopman]

What about the poor teachers who would rather be in a warm staff room with a mug of tea?

[NorthernStar]

This thread is beginning to remind me of an old email viral someone sent me, so I thought I'd share it:-

 

CONGRATULATIONS

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE

1920's, 30's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's

 

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while

they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos.

 

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, tuna from a can, and didn't

get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer.

 

Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright coloured lead-based paints.

 

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when

we rode our bikes, we had no helmets or shoes, not to mention, the risks

we took hitchhiking.

 

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.

 

Riding in the back of a Ute on a warm day was always a special treat.

 

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

 

Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonalds,

KFC, Subway or Red Rooster.

 

Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and didn't open on the weekends, somehow we didn't starve to death!

 

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE

actually died from this.

 

We could collect old drink bottles and cash them in at the corner store

and buy fruit tingles and some crackers to blow up frogs with.

 

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soft drinks with

sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because......

 

WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!

 

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were

back when the streetlights came on.

 

No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.

 

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes.

We built tree houses and cubby houses and played in creek beds with matchbox cars.

 

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video

games at all, no 99 channels on cable,

no video tape movies, no

surround sound,

no mobile

phones, no personal

computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms...........WE

HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

 

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no

Lawsuits from these accidents.

 

Only girls had pierced ears!

 

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in

us forever.

 

You could only buy Easter Eggs and Hot Cross buns at Easter time......no

really!

 

We were given BB guns and sling shots for our 10th birthdays,

 

We drank milk laced with Strontium 90 from cows that had eaten grass covered

in nuclear fallout from the atomic testing at Maralinga in 1956.

 

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or

rang the bell, or just yelled for them!

 

Mum didn't have to go to work to help dad make ends meet!

 

Footy had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had

to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!

 

Our teachers used to belt us with big sticks and leather staps and bullies

always ruled the playground at school..

 

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of.

They actually sided

with the law!

 

Our parents got married before they had children and

didn't invent stupid names for their kids like "Kiora" and "Blade"

 

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers

and inventors ever!

 

The past 70 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

 

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned

HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!

 

And YOU are one of them!

 

CONGRATULATIONS!

 

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow

up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for

our own good.

 

And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how

brave their parents were.

 

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't

it?!

[xfox3x]

only cruel for the children that don't want to do it.

 

Well yes...it never hurt us.

We can also go back to the time when there was no heating in schools and offices.It didn't hurt them...made 'em tough.

Whilst we're at it, let all those on DLA go out begging in the street like the disabled used to do. Same goes for the unemployed. Why should society support them?

Everyone give up your cars and walk to work at 5am and walk home at 8pm.

That would put an end to obesity - and we'd all be far too busy washing our clothes in the sink to come and spout our opinions in cyber-world.

Let's not progress at all...let's keep on doing the same things no matter how stupid and cruel they are. Good idea!!!

[mijjman1]

technology doesnt seem to have made life any better for most of you. i guess you dont need it afteWAIT A MINUTE your using the interwebs in a heated house with this new fangled electricamicity and you drive your metalwagons. so yeah things progres things change, tell everyone how doing sport in the freezing weather amounted to all those successful people. lets count from now on....GO.

[Swan_Vesta]

Let's not progress at all...let's keep on doing the same things no matter how stupid and cruel they are. Good idea!!!

 

You call creating a generation who don't do things because they're hard or inconvenient progress? Why is it stupid or cruel to ensure children have a decent level of fitness and also the stones to say "It's a bit cold but best get cracked on"?

 

Far better to have a generation who are only good for putting dents in beanbags and getting to level 9875 on their Xstation 360 as they brush the wotsit's dust off of their ever swelling man boobs.

[mijjman1]

sport can still be done inside yes? doing it outside where EVERYONE is cold including the teacher is abit pointless no?

[Guest]

When my son goes to school and it is cold i WILL write him a note... sod that. I am not risking my sons health..... i think it is stupid. ...

A note to excuse him from PE because it's cold? Surely that's a direct route to having the other kids point, laugh and/or stab your special snowflake with pointy sticks; you know how kind children can be...

[boyfriday]

i dont believe it "changes" kids from soft to hard

you ARE either soft, or your hard, the hard kids get on with it, the soft kids harbour resentment and fear over it

 

I bet eastbank did PE in the nuddie