No wonder kids are so fat

[cailin maith]

Oi Cybertwat! If you read the OP properly and had an understanding of English you'd understand how much <more> of a pillock you've just made yourself out to be.

Collecting for an appointment and just picking your kids up from school are two very different things.

And - he did make it perfectly clear that his kids walked....

[BrilloPad]

I got chatting to a fellow from the German athletics union a couple of weeks ago on the train. I asked him what he thought was going wrong with European athletics, seeing as the 2008 Olympics was the worst year ever for the big European athletics nations (GB, although they did well in cycling, France, Germany and Italy used to dominate track and field together). He said that it’s difficult enough to get young kids to start athletics but when they do start they are often simply less fit and fast than 9 or 10 year olds twenty years ago. I asked him if that’s just his memory (you know, rose coloured spectacles and all that), but he told me he had all the data on times at different distances and weight of the kids and could only explain the problem in terms of the lack of exercise at an early age, one thing being that kids don’t walk or run to school and back anymore. Once someone’s got that disadvantage at 10 years old it’s very difficult to turn him into a top athlete at 20.

We then exchanged ideas for a future ‘Westerners Only Olympics’ to be held in 20 years time. The 100 metre walk while eating hamburger, the 400 metre texting competition, the low jump, throwing the ping pong ball, heavyweight happy slapping etc were some of our ideas.

So take heart in the chance that your son might actually compete in the real Olympics.

I remember once in the caribbean(Jamaica I think) they did a English vs American contest.

They may have whipped us in the swimming but we sure as hell could drink them under the table.....

[threaded]

I got chatting to a fellow from the German athletics union a couple of weeks ago on the train. I asked him what he thought was going wrong with European athletics, seeing as the 2008 Olympics was the worst year ever for the big European athletics nations (GB, although they did well in cycling, France, Germany and Italy used to dominate track and field together). He said that it’s difficult enough to get young kids to start athletics but when they do start they are often simply less fit and fast than 9 or 10 year olds twenty years ago.

It's right, kids just aren't so fast nowadays. I was in a bike race a few weeks ago and came in just in front of one of the chaps in the Saxo Bank Team.

He'd only lapped me twice!

[Ardesco]

Please tell me you're joking. Where did you hear that? If that's true I might just have to punch a Labour politician.

Sadly that mentality is true, there are a large number of schools that don't do a traditional sports day any more so that they don't have any losers.... Teachers are also not allowed to mark work incorrect with a red cross in most schools nowadays as the red cross is demeaning the poor little dear. Most teachers now use the green tick pen to make crosses, just wait in a few years time a green cross will be demeaning.....

(My wife is a teacher hence I have the inside track on some of this stuff)

[realityhack]

Sadly that mentality is true, there are a large number of schools that don't do a traditional sports day any more so that they don't have any losers.... Teachers are also not allowed to mark work incorrect with a red cross in most schools nowadays as the red cross is demeaning the poor little dear. Most teachers now use the green tick pen to make crosses, just wait in a few years time a green cross will be demeaning.....

(My wife is a teacher hence I have the inside track on some of this stuff)

What a royally resplendent bunch of arse. Where do these idiots get their maligned ideology from? Cultural Marxism will be the death of society. I'm hoping there'll be a backlash to all this.

[Moscow Mule]

Sadly that mentality is true, there are a large number of schools that don't do a traditional sports day any more so that they don't have any losers.... Teachers are also not allowed to mark work incorrect with a red cross in most schools nowadays as the red cross is demeaning the poor little dear. Most teachers now use the green tick pen to make crosses, just wait in a few years time a green cross will be demeaning.....

(My wife is a teacher hence I have the inside track on some of this stuff)

I don't know if you're talking about primary or secondary, but Mrs MM is Head of PE at a secondary. They have all sorts of competitive teams playing borough and county sport as well as loads of kids going to clubs where the sport is individual (athletics, tennis etc etc).

To say secondary kids are removed from competitive sport is just wrong.

[BrilloPad]

I don't know if you're talking about primary or secondary, but Mrs MM is Head of PE at a secondary. They have all sorts of competitive teams playing borough and county sport as well as loads of kids going to clubs where the sport is individual (athletics, tennis etc etc).

To say secondary kids are removed from competitive sport is just wrong.

Do they make them fight in a cage?

[Mich the Tester]

Do they make them fight in a cage?

He didn't say anything to suggest it was a boarding school.

[Moscow Mule]

Do they make them fight in a cage?

That's the queue for the chips at lunchtime...

[Pogle]

Pogle jr's primary school has lots of teams for stuff.
They do all sorts to get the kids into sports and activities.

She does fencing before school once a week and loves it.