Alison H wrote:
I would have behaved very badly at school if it'd got me out of PE!
So would I have!
JayB wrote:
There's a (non-Dimsie) DFB book where two girls are behaving badly* but the Games Captain keeps them in the team because they're the best players. Some of the other girls think they should be dropped, because 'win at all costs' isn't the proper spirit, and it would be better to lose than seem to tolerate their behaviour.
Still happens now in real life. Every now and again there's a scandal because a guy from a sports team has done something and still gets put on the team or is punished very very lightly. And these are not small things - they have been accused of, sometimes even charged, with rape, sexual assault, reckless driving etc and the Oz public is so obsessed with winning, they look the other way.
cestina wrote:
Oh yes that too....if you were clever you could "sit" one circuit out by hiding behind one of the pavilions. Didn't always work though and then you got an extra circuit as punishment.
We did this for a warmup. I used to jog trot the first round, then walk the second one. A few times I was so behind the rest of the class, they had already picked teams and were starting a game by the time I arrived. So I got to sit out.
But for the annual 10km cross country event which wound round the nearby streets, I used to tear off first and then hide behind a large bush close to my house. When everyone else had run past, I calmly walked home. I did this for four years running and because the teachers never did a roll call at the end of the event, I was never caught out.
It was just assumed everyone wanted to get points for their house and wouldn't skive out like I did. Only years later did a school friend tell me she knew I did that and never told
Cheers,
Joyce