Were you laughed at, ridiculed, teased, called a DUmmy and chosen last?

[Tucker]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1273952

We were just discussing this very thing the other day. I suspect that DUmmies are peeking.

bluestateguy (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Fri Jun-10-11 10:25 PM
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Do schools ban the children from "picking teams" at recess now?
   
If they even have recess, but that is a discussion for another time.

A friend of mine was telling me that her son's school does not allow the children to pick teams through the old ritual of two captains and all the kids move over here, and the captains take turns publicly picking players. She tells me that her son's school has banned that because the lowly picked kids could have hurt feelings.

Is this a familiar practice in the schools now?

The political correctness in the schools is really getting out of control.

KittyWampus Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Fri Jun-10-11 10:28 PM
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1. The only people who'd criticize that policy are those who never had to endure the humiliation
   
Edited on Fri Jun-10-11 10:29 PM by KittyWampus
A good PE teacher would balance the teams with good/poor players and set up the teams herself.

At least if the goal is to actually -teach- teamwork & athletics.

The goal is to win. There's no honor in losing.

bluestateguy (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Fri Jun-10-11 10:35 PM
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10. I have
   
And when I was picked last or near last, it motivated me to play harder and better, and in due time I was picked earlier and earlier on the ladder.

KittyWampus Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Fri Jun-10-11 10:37 PM
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11. So the bookworm who has no athletic ability should just suck it up, right?
   
Bad enough to be forced to play some stupid game they have no interest in. But they get to be picked last every time.

UGH.

The kitty primitive is a lardazz that gets her clothes from fat people catalogs. She goes into a rage at the use of the word "Fat".

Cid_B (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Fri Jun-10-11 11:10 PM
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36. A mind boggling concept...
   
... suck less and you won't be last anymore.

Amazing

pipi_k Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Fri Jun-10-11 10:45 PM
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13. Absolutely!
   
I was never one of those kids who was good at sports.

I was always one of the last ones chosen.

It really sucked big time to be one of the last ones standing there and seeing the team captains hemming and hawing and trying to decide (with visible disgust on their faces) which one of us rejects wouldn't screw up the game all that much for their team.


What else sucked...

I've had Raynauds since childhood. My hands, due to cold or anxiety, would (and still do, all these years later) get cold and sweaty. And it hurts like hell, but that's another story.

We would have square dancing in fifth and sixth grades once a week. Nobody wanted to hold my hand. They'd grab my wrist. If a kid happened to touch my hand with his own, he'd wipe it off.

It made me more anxious, and I would then sweat even more.


Kids can be so cruel sometimes.

But anyway, yeah. What you said. The ones who never had to deal with being rejected do have the luxury of poo-poo'ing the whole idea of letting the teachers make the choices.

We don't want him
You can have him
He's no friend of mine.

wtmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Fri Jun-10-11 10:48 PM
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16. Eesh. If that's considered humiliation we're in bad shape.
   
Just give everyone a trophy and send them home (make sure all the trophies are exactly the same size).

That's one of the problems. Not everybody is the same.

A huge campfire.

[Texacon]

bluestateguy (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Fri Jun-10-11 10:35 PM
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10. I have
   
And when I was picked last or near last, it motivated me to play harder and better, and in due time I was picked earlier and earlier on the ladder.

Whoa dude.  That is too close to 'Risk/Reward' like is used in the real business world.  You've got to be a lousy Freeper Troll!  Alert, alert, alert!!

pipi_k Donating Member (1000+ posts)
What else sucked...

I've had Raynauds since childhood. My hands, due to cold or anxiety, would (and still do, all these years later) get cold and sweaty. And it hurts like hell, but that's another story.

We would have square dancing in fifth and sixth grades once a week. Nobody wanted to hold my hand. They'd grab my wrist. If a kid happened to touch my hand with his own, he'd wipe it off.

It made me more anxious, and I would then sweat even more.


Kids can be so cruel sometimes.

But anyway, yeah. What you said. The ones who never had to deal with being rejected do have the luxury of poo-poo'ing the whole idea of letting the teachers make the choices.

Boo frickin' Hoo.  I've had hyperhydrosis my whole life.  You live with it.

KC

[jukin]

I've got a hunski that says 99% of the DUmpmonkeys were. I have no doubt of it.

[Evil_Conservative]

I remember being picked almost immediately for kick ball and dodge ball.  I sucked at other games and wasn't picked as quickly.  My life went on.

[BlueStateSaint]

I was picked almost last for a lot of things.  So, I got a little better in certain aspects of the games.  Lo!  I went further and further up the "draft" order.

[Tucker]

I was usually the picker.

How many ruined lives am I responsible for?

[BlueStateSaint]

I was usually the picker.

How many ruined lives am I responsible for?

According to the DUmb****s, lots.

[jtyangel]

Couple of things...I got picked near last because I had zero skills since my parents didn't think sports were important. Now at 41, the number of asses I could kick activity wise to those that picked me I'm sure is quite ample I'll not brag, but I'm pretty good shape as far as the cardiovascular, muscular, and outside shell goes. So, no skin off my back. Teach kids the skills they need for the sports, that's what they are there for in gym to begin with...easy lesson here for this one:

KittyWampus Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Fri Jun-10-11 10:37 PM
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11. So the bookworm who has no athletic ability should just suck it up, right?
  
Bad enough to be forced to play some stupid game they have no interest in. But they get to be picked last every time.

UGH.

You can't be first in everything, Kittywampus..that's the lesson. I'm sure you have no problem with the 'bookworm' being honored for their achievement when it comes time to accept honors. I don't remember the kids sitting in the bleachers at my daughter's recent honors ceremony crying because the principal of the school said he wanted to see them sitting down on that floor next year ie they were last academically. I think what I don't like about not just dummies with this is they don't see any problem pointing out academically excellent kids even if those who aren't so inclined might feel slighted. Again, the lesson is twofold, you always have the chance to try and perform better and learn new skills and also not everyone can be good at everything. Yeah, if kids are being assholes, I count on the adults present to take action, usually verbal, to nip that kind of childish stupidity in the butt, but it is just childishness when it gets out of hand.


As an aside, pardon the disjointedness of my post. Had to tend to something real quick and wrote that post even quicker. Got a grad party to attend in a bit so I'm running about but couldn't pass this one up. 

[GOBUCKS]

This thread is all about how the democrat party embraces the pussification of Amierica.

[USA4ME]

KittyWampus

The only people who'd criticize that policy are those who never had to endure the humiliation
  
Bad enough to be forced to play some stupid game they have no interest in. But they get to be picked last every time.

UGH.

Wow!  Someone still has issues from the 3rd grade.

Like the kids don't know who's the better players and what the teacher is up to when s/he picks the teams.  What would it matter anyway?  After the game is over the kids are either saying "We lost because KittyWampus was on our team" or "We won in spite of the fact that KittyWampus was on our team."  You aren't foolin' anybody, primitives.

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[jtyangel]

BTW, I have Raynaud's too, but I don't get sweaty like him...my hands are usually very cold though, especially during winter(even inside). And, well you can read this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raynaud%27s_phenomenon

Happens in my toes mostly and only since I moved to a colder climate. It does indeed get painful and itchy too, but I've never stopped working out because of it. As for touching his hands as a child, yeah, that's one of those things I meant that the teacher should have addressed, but I'm guessing hte dummie actually may not have had his diagnosis until he was much older and has applied it to his childhood symptoms so nobody could have explained it then.

As an odd twist, I not only get Raynaud's in winter, but in summer I've got an allergy of sorts to UVA rays: solar dermatitis. I get it coming and going with weather I think it's just immune system related(overactive immune system) and its becoming more prominent as I get older and I would guess the immune system works even less efficiently(or move--over) then before. Either way, I'm a very active individual despite this and I still go out to the pool and swim and do summer activities. I live with the rash for the few weeks it stays. Not going to stop life because of some minor reactions to weather.   I would hope conservative or liberal we all learn to overcome our shortcomings and live life triumphantly despite them. Life's too short to hide because of things like this.

[JohnnyReb]

"You played a great game kids. We had a lot of fun didn't we."

YOU LOST DUMMIE....every damn game for 2 years. That was my sons soccer team coaches when he was 7 and 8 years old. My son would cry all the way home after a game because they lost. He always wanted to win at whatever sport he was playing....even at 5 years old when they didn't keep score, the kids knew when they won and when they lost.

I begged a distant relative to take my son on his team when he moved up to the next age level. That relative and the other coach was despised by parents. They were considered to be to mean and to rough on kids and a lot of parents would rather pull their kids out of soccer than have them play on their team. They were kind of hard on the kids ..."BUT"...unlike all the other coaches in every sport my son ever played, they were just as rough and tough on their own kids. Three parents took their kids off the team after a few minutes of the first dang practice. One lady asked me if I was going to allow them to treat my son like that. I told her, "As long as they treat mine the same way as they treat their own, I can deal with it." My son loved playing for them. The team more or less stayed together for 5 years because parents wouldn't let their kids play for those 2 coaches....they were the county champions in their age group for 5 years in a row.

Son played JV soccer for that coach until he got his right knee destoyed in a game. That coach only coached high school JV soccer one year because parents complained.  

[WinOne4TheGipper]

I was usually the picker.

How many ruined lives am I responsible for?

Monster!

[Ree]

i was usually picked last, i didn't find out till i was an adult that i don't have any depth persecution.  but i don't let crap from grade and high school bother me now. grow up and get over it.

[Ballygrl]

I've always been a girly girl when it comes to sports and I wasn't picked last but pretty close to it, you survive it. It's like not having a winner or loser in sports, we're raising a generation of kids who feel entitled, who think they should become CEO when they graduate college because they have Parents and Educators who think they should be made to always feel good.

[GOBUCKS]

I've always been a girly girl when it comes to sports and I wasn't picked last but pretty close to it, you survive it. It's like not having a winner or loser in sports, we're raising a generation of kids who feel entitled, who think they should become CEO when they graduate college because they have Parents and Educators who think they should be made to always feel good.

Girly girls who are picked nearly last for sports, are usually picked much earlier for more important things.

[formerlurker]

In gym class the phys ed teacher always picked teams.    I don't recall even thinking about where I was picked, so it never affected me either way.   

[Ballygrl]

Girly girls who are picked nearly last for sports, are usually picked much earlier for more important things.

Oh jeez, I was a strict Catholic though. In HS a guy pinched my butt in front of everyone, I was terrified of getting a reputation so I gave him a right hook to the face, that was it for guys doing that in HS LOL.

[GOBUCKS]

Oh jeez, I was a strict Catholic though. In HS a guy pinched my butt in front of everyone, I was terrified of getting a reputation so I gave him a right hook to the face, that was it for guys doing that in HS LOL.

You were probably scarred for life - at least that's what a trial lawyer like Silky Pony would claim when you sued the kid's parents and the school system.

I hope it was a parochial school. In public schools today, a silly kid prank like that would land him, and you, in alternative school with the tweekers, huffers, and gangbangers. And your teacher might be Proud2bDUmb. All for playing grabass. Thank God it wasn't that way when I went to school.

[Ballygrl]

You were probably scarred for life - at least that's what a trial lawyer like Silky Pony would claim when you sued the kid's parents and the school system.

I hope it was a parochial school. In public schools today, a silly kid prank like that would land him, and you, in alternative school with the tweekers, huffers, and gangbangers. And your teacher might be Proud2bDUmb. All for playing grabass. Thank God it wasn't that way when I went to school.

Yep it was parochial school.