Do you think that Sports Day should be banned?

Sports in school and sports day in particular are good, valuable and should never, ever, be banned. There is no debate to had on this, imo.

Sports day was fricking amazing! What are you on about! Even though my house came last, we played our part! We won our relay race and 100m and 400m. But we got unlucky!

Do you think that Sports Day should be banned/compulsory? If someone were to suggest that everyone has to play an instrument in front of the entire school, everyone would consider it baloney. Why it is different for sport, I don't know.

actually my school does make everyone get up and play a musical instrument on stage and its a state non specialist school. Its just good fun stop whinging
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Just to clarify, I agree that Sports Day should not be banned, however, I do not think that it should be compulsory.

P.E is obviously a necessary part of our education. I enjoy my P.E lessons. However, Sports Day and P.E lessons are two completely different things. In our P.E you are given multiple options into the activities that you do and the class that you are put in, so there is little, if any, pressure in this regard.

I don't know whether you are good at sport or not, but for somebody who isn't, it is one of the most dreaded days of the year. Comparing a subject like maths to Sports Day falls through. When you enter an exam room, the school is not focused upon you individually. You have months before hand to talk to teachers, prepare, revise problems, etc. Your maths answers are recorded in an exam paper rather than in front of the school. You have the opportunity to do Foundation rather than Higher. Generally, there is little publicity involved.

So no, I don't think you can use that analogy.

I wasn't good at sport in school, I only became interested and active in (nb, never good) fitness and sports once I had left.

I compared the two because the vast majority of complaints on here were based around the concept of "I don't like it, so it should be banned", my response was solely to point out how idiotic that argument is.

We need competition. It's a fundamental element of humanity. The whole "everyone's a winner" atmosphere that has perpetuated in British schools in recent years is one of the worst things we could ever do to people.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with spots and sports days, it and they should be encouraged, not reduced.

What needs to happen around it, though, is the teaching of sportsmanship, the pastoral support around it. People, in life, are going to lose. Everybody needs and has to know how to cope with that. Those lessons absolutely must begin at school.

British kids in general are extremely lazy and overweight

Oh, I don't mind being **** at sport because I know that it makes no difference to my future. But what I object to is the bullying that comes along with it.

We need competition. It's a fundamental element of humanity. The whole "everyone's a winner" atmosphere that has perpetuated in British schools in recent years is one of the worst things we could ever do to people.

What needs to happen around it, though, is the teaching of sportsmanship, the pastoral support around it. People, in life, are going to lose. Everybody needs and has to know how to cope with that. Those lessons absolutely must begin at school.

If someone were to suggest that everyone has to play an instrument in front of the entire school, everyone would consider it baloney. Why it is different for sport, I don't know.

Hence why I said the pastoral support and wider lessons about sportsmanship also need to be taught.

I would, however, argue that it does make a difference, I notice you completely ignored the post where I told you that you will face competition in the future, where you will have to work as a team in the future... The lessons you learn at school are vital for this.

But people need a backbone too. Worst things can and will be said in your future, if you can't handle it now then you're in for a real shock.

As a class or as an individual?

I agree with this in principle. Competition will never cease, purely because there are limits - university places, job places, houses, etc.

However, competition should be available on all fronts rather than just the sporting front. For example, I'd rather be involved in a Maths competition rather than a sporting competition simply because that's where my strengths lie. Competition should not be made compulsory unless there are a range of options.

And why does Sports Day have to teach that? These lessons can be taught in P.E rather than through demoralising struggles on the athletics track.

The only things other the academic that I learnt at school were that if you suck at what's popular; you're good at what's not popular and you look or act differently you'll be bullied.

God help you in life with that attitude.

What do you mean by that?