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Sarah Haselwood: ‘The truth is in life, not everyone will always be a winner’
As I followed my son around his sports day, it was challenging for me to avoid openly complaining about the lack of sport and competition. Yes, he’s only seven, but I was mystified as to why he was playing games with the younger Reception children. There were no winners or losers, just participants.
I spoke to a parent at sports day who feared that a competitive one would result in children who weren’t good at sports being ridiculed. Firstly, I don’t think spectating parents are that cruel. Secondly, not all events have to involve speed. For example, sack or egg and spoon races are competitive because a winner emerges, and not necessarily because they’re the fastest child.
There’s some sentiment of fairness missing for children who aren’t academic but are good at sport. I’ve heard about schools that hold competitive and non-competitive sports days to keep children and parents happy. But this isn’t a real-life lesson. Children won’t have such freedom in the future. Nor do they enjoy that much at school. They aren’t, for example,
able to choose whether they participate in spelling tests. So why doesn’t this element of classroom competition extend to sports day? On the spectrum of “it’s all about winning” and “it’s the taking part that counts”, can’t schools operate sports day somewhere in the middle, so it’s healthy competition without pressure?more about upsetting the parents than the children.
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