When I was in grade school, I was one of those smaller kids who got nailed in every single dodgeball game. Still, I didn't care because I loved playing the game - great fun!
When it rained the coachs would be on one side and students on the other it was great fun and i got blasted plenty
The Horror!!
What they really need to get their mind right is a good bedtime story read by chicks w/ dicks drag queens.
I was a skinny, slow runner with poor arm strength. Dodge ball and, to a slightly lesser extent, the various tag games were my favorite games. And although teamwork was a factor, there was never team-focused anger: any athletic failings had small effect on teammates’ success.
So, what are the alternatives? A group hug, reading with a drag queen, sharing the bathroom?
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Oh, for heaven’s sake.
Oh please. Give me a break!
On second thought, don’t give me a break, just let me play, whether I win or lose. I can handle it!
When I was in High School the saying "If you can Dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball" became common. (Because of the movie)
That meant to take chances! Goodness can't even have that anymore.
Yours is exactly the attitude this sort of game is good at teaching! Your value is not defined by how you come out in a schoolyard game, and the same applies to much else in life.
I’m a girl and I loved dodgeball - maybe because I only had brothers.
Geez just turn your back or shoulder to the ball and I NEVER aimed for the head - that target is too small anyway. :-)
education theorists
“If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball.”
The left is opposed to any hierarchies of competence, excellence or ability. But it is zealous about hierarchies of victimization.
I was usually faster than the throwers.
Agreed. I wasn’t good at dodge ball but no one could best me at tetherball. Sports and other endeavors have “educative” purpose. I learn quickly that I can’t excel at everything and everyone is better than others at something. This teaches me to concentrate and work on my strengths so that I don’t go through life being mediocre at everything. And it teaches me to let others use their own strengths and appreciate the differences and complementry design of nature.
So take that Canadian dimwit edumacatorsI agree completely. This country and all of Western Civ. has begun a steep decline which if not stopped will end in disaster.
I will say that I had a humbling experience in the 5th grade. That year my family moved 18 miles to DeFuniak Springs. I changed schools and went from pretty much the best and most athletic guy to a situation where I was the last person chosen.
Everyone in my family had been athletic. My Mother and my Father both played on basketball teams which competed in the finals of the Florida state championship. On field day in Panama City. both my Sisters and both my Brothers won every event they were in. I won the 50 yard dash.
I will have to say that it is an awful feeling to be the last chosen on a team. It only took a couple of weeks before I was at least back to being a good player. By the 7th grade I was captain of the football team.