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Children 'no longer care' about winning or losing in sports
The Telegraph ^
| April 22, 2014
| Graeme Paton, Education Editor
Posted on 04/22/2014 4:04:05 AM PDT by lbryce
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The initial reference to the article was expressed as "Is Britain in danger of losing its competitive edge"? And immediately I thought no. That occurred ages ago. When everything, everyone is forced to conform, where schools have eschewed the old world tradition of actually grading children in various levels of proficiency because the overachiever 'A' students were making children of lesser intellectual capability feel inferior which instead of spurring them on to do better, the liberals whined that it only perpetuated their stupidity and worse, made them cry, which only turned them gay. And so, winning at sports evolved into making the winners feel guilty, bad as if it were a stigma of sorts because it made the the losers feel, well, like losers, and that's frowned upon now, being a winner. Socialized medicine certainly had an effect as well, and I don't why or how this has anything to do with a society evolving into a country of losers, eating bangers, cow brains in a can and the rest of Britain's celebrated gastronomic jackpot, eating canned organ meat and other assorted offal will turn you into a country of losers because not only do you not feel well, you smell badly as well.
The final nail in the coffin for Britain's culture of sheeple losers is the recent circumstance whereby the British Judicial system began enforcing Sharia Law. Once you cross this telltale, raise the white flag line in the sand of that signals the end of Western Civilization, in the multiple choice list of responses of how do you feel, are you in the fast lane of life, there's only one selection you can make;LOSER.
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posted on
04/22/2014 4:04:05 AM PDT
by
lbryce
To: lbryce
“Mommy, what’s the score?” “Why precious, the score is FUN to FUN!!!! Yayyyyyy!
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posted on
04/22/2014 4:05:07 AM PDT
by
Gaffer
(Comprehensive Immigration Reform is just another name for Comprehensive Capitulation)
To: lbryce
Another name for second place is First Loser.
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posted on
04/22/2014 4:19:02 AM PDT
by
BuffaloJack
(Government by Gun Point.)
To: lbryce
As they become adults, that same attitude will apply to world politics and war. Then again, that was the liberals plan all along.
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posted on
04/22/2014 4:21:00 AM PDT
by
SunTzuWu
To: Gaffer
My child is on a lacrossse team that just started and is struggling. They played a school which was beating them 20 -1 and the mean girls on the winning were growling “more more”. It was revealing. They were beasts.
Besides that, it isn’t just sports kids maybe don’t care about, it’s everything. No one cares about anything except advancing themselves and sex, oh and did I mention sex?
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posted on
04/22/2014 4:25:02 AM PDT
by
yldstrk
( My heroes have always been cowboys)
To: lbryce
Sports are the opiate of the inebriate.
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posted on
04/22/2014 4:31:21 AM PDT
by
rawcatslyentist
(Jeremiah 50:32 "The arrogant one will stumble and fall ; / ?)
To: lbryce
That explains the lack of violence at football matches.
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posted on
04/22/2014 4:38:40 AM PDT
by
Toadman
(To anger a Conservative, tell a lie. To anger a liberal, tell the truth.)
To: lbryce
There are a lot of things to read into your comments about the decline of Britain, but I don't think the loss of interest in competitive school sports is one of them.
In fact, I'd go so far as to suggest that school sports programs are actually part of the problem, and the changes in attitudes among children may reflect something else entirely. I've long said that kids should be left alone to play sports, and that adult involvement in children's sports can probably do more harm than good in the long run. I've long said that kids probably shouldn't play organized sports at all until high school at the earliest, and even then there is still a danger that the development of the young adults will be harmed by the misplaced priorities of the adults who are involved.
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posted on
04/22/2014 4:42:01 AM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
("I've never seen such a conclave of minstrels in my life.")
To: yldstrk
I should have referenced this in my previous post. That's exactly what I'm referring to. It sounds to me like those two teams have no business competing on the same field. Looking back at the sports we played as kids, one of the things I find fascinating about it is that we'd rarely ever end up in situations where one team would consistently beat another by lopsided margins. That's because we tended to gravitate to groups of kids with similar skills and abilities.
When you think about it, it makes sense. The team that loses by a 20-1 score is likely to be demoralized, but the team that wins isn't really getting any better in the process, are they?
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posted on
04/22/2014 4:45:44 AM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
("I've never seen such a conclave of minstrels in my life.")
To: Alberta's Child
Yeah my daughter’s team is really a JV team but is being required to play varsity because they have been in existence for 3 years, it’s stupid.
My daughter’s team is plucky but they are struggling
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posted on
04/22/2014 4:49:44 AM PDT
by
yldstrk
( My heroes have always been cowboys)
To: Alberta's Child
And we didn’t have Title X requiring girls’ teams when I was a kid, none of us girls were on a team. We had to play field hockey in gym class and the big girls bowled us over.
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posted on
04/22/2014 4:52:23 AM PDT
by
yldstrk
( My heroes have always been cowboys)
To: yldstrk
Tell them to keep at it, though!
When I was a kid we must have set a record on my recreational soccer team by going 0-12 in one season and getting outscored by a margin of something like 75-5. One season later we were 12-0 and won our league championship. Go figure. LOL.
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04/22/2014 4:52:55 AM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
("I've never seen such a conclave of minstrels in my life.")
To: yldstrk
That’s a whole other side of the story that I hadn’t even thought about. Thanks!
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posted on
04/22/2014 4:53:40 AM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
("I've never seen such a conclave of minstrels in my life.")
To: Alberta's Child
You have a point about the adults’ interfering, a good point. We had recreational teams with coaches red faced and spit flying yelling at the kids. I complained and the other coaches got together and told one coach he was done, he was so crazed and displayed favoritism to his son and made hes son cry with his fanaticism. The coach was a dentist in daily life, he just lost it and so did his wife when the team was on the field. On girl came and stood by me because she was afraid the wife was going to attack me.
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posted on
04/22/2014 4:56:46 AM PDT
by
yldstrk
( My heroes have always been cowboys)
To: yldstrk
Lots of life lessons in those struggles. The first win over a competitive team will be very sweet.
Our girls' school district was sort of the "Bad News Bears" of girls' sports - they were rarely competitive. But my girls enjoyed playing where at a school with a stronger program they would never have made the team. They worked hard, treasured their victories when they came, and moved on.
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posted on
04/22/2014 5:10:27 AM PDT
by
Mygirlsmom
(No Mo (zilla). I'm going to the Opera instead.)
To: lbryce
A long time ago I took tennis very seriously. I liked to win, but I liked to lose also. Why? I always tried to play with someone better than I. I lost plenty but always came away having gone to school on them and slightly improved myself. I never considered myself a loser, just in training.
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posted on
04/22/2014 5:23:02 AM PDT
by
CrazyIvan
(Obama phones= Bread and circuits.)
To: yldstrk
The value in playing and learning how to win or lose, isn't about the score. It is about how to compete well, about being on a team, and even how to deal with the “beasts” of this world. But in order for those lessons to be taught by life, one has to keep ‘the score.’
It bothers me as I see the article pointing out a dangerous type of precedence...one of apathy about life. It illustrates why making things 'fair' for children removes the child's ability to thrive and find their own talents. It is my opinion that this generation is the ticking time bomb of cultural decline. Fairness and apathy are not man's best friends, no matter what the socialist/progressive model would brainwash them to believe. To remove a child's desire to compete or achieve to the best of their ability, destroys them. Children brought up in such a culture will not bring their best skills and God-given gifts to the world.
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posted on
04/22/2014 5:30:33 AM PDT
by
EBH
(And the head wound was healed, and Gog became man.)
To: lbryce
There is such a thing as pick-up games. I’m sure those have been around for a long time, where the score doesn’t matter as much as having fun. But when the competitive element is removed from organization, such as a local little league or high school-level sport, that’s when there’s a huge problem.
For example, I bet a bunch of the kids I grew up with would go to our local park for softball, and we’d have fun with it instead of being competitive.
But like I said, when it’s take out of local and school sports, there’s a huge problem.
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posted on
04/22/2014 5:32:12 AM PDT
by
wastedyears
(I'm a pessimist, I say plenty of negative things. Consider it a warning of sorts.)
To: lbryce
Coached HS baseball for three seasons and will be getting back into it this summer.
The kids I coached wanted to win every time they took the field.
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posted on
04/22/2014 5:37:15 AM PDT
by
onedoug
To: lbryce
Anybody think Johnny Manziel doesn’t care about winning? LOL!
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posted on
04/22/2014 5:40:57 AM PDT
by
lonestar
(It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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