[Dialup Llama]

I never liked musical chairs because it teaches that for there to be a winner someone else must be made a loser. Only in certain artificial societies like corporations is such a thing true.

On second thought, maybe it is good training. It teaches you that you'll have to kick some people to the curb in order to receive recognition. In a company like Intel with its 'normed' system of evaluation, you had better be able shove aside the lower 20%.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Are you being serious?

[ArrogantBustard]

I never liked musical chairs baseball football golf racing skeet riflery IPSC ANY COMPETETIVE SPORT because it teaches that for there to be a winner someone else must be made a loser.

In all of these activities, noone is "made" to be a loser, except by himself. Competition determines who, on any given day, is best at the competed activity. Repeated competition encourages losers to hone their skills, so that next time they might be winners.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

Huh? That is really scary. How about learning how to survive in a capitalist society. Unless you suggest that once children graduate from school they move to Russia or China.

Now that would be a whole lot better than living in this horrible commetitive society where hard work, reason and trail and error come in handy.

Oh I get it, you want to change our system into a socialist system where everyone is equal and no one is a loser. Well then, lets just pitch this social and economic experiment called America. What a novel idea.

[FrdmLvr]

When my son was in first grade, the SAFE instructor (sort of the interfering school psychologist) used to come in the classroom and play a game called Lilly Pads. It was the same as musical chairs and when the music stopped, all of the kids who were on lilly pads were supposed to offer to share their lilly pad with a kid who didn't have one. It was one of the many reasons I pulled him out midway in the year.