Posted on 04/22/2014 4:04:05 AM PDT by lbryce
Research by the MCC and the Chance to Shine cricketing charity suggests that large numbers of schoolchildren no longer care if the competitive element is taken out of sport Most children would not be bothered if the competitive element was taken out of school sport, according to research by the MCC. Most children would not be bothered if the competitive element was taken out of school sport, according to research by the MCC. Photo: Alamy Graeme Paton
Britain risks losing its competitive edge because a generation of children is no longer interested in winning on the sporting field, according to research.
Figures show the majority of children are not bothered if the competitive element is removed from football, cricket, rugby and hockey fixtures, saying playing for fun or being with friends is more important.
>> School sport: no winners, no losers, no fun
It emerged that mothers and fathers place a considerably greater focus on winning or losing, with some even admitting they would not watch their children play sport if there was no final result.
The disclosure, in a study by the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and cricketing charity Chance to Shine, will fuel concerns that a "prizes for all" culture in schools over the last few decades has eroded children's competitive spirit.
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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.
“Mommy, what’s the score?” “Why precious, the score is FUN to FUN!!!! Yayyyyyy!
Another name for second place is First Loser.
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?
Sports are the opiate of the inebriate.
That explains the lack of violence at football matches.
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.
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?
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
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.
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.
That’s a whole other side of the story that I hadn’t even thought about. Thanks!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Anybody think Johnny Manziel doesn’t care about winning? LOL!
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