Re: Greetings from England
Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 2:21 am
Bonjour! (Excuse the French greeting, very random on my behalf)
Welcome to the forum. I can definitely understand your hate for sport. It's quite amazing that we both hate it in a relatively same reason, which is drive it down other people's throats, or something close to that. However, for me, my hatred of sports began developing when I was in Middle School (or Junior High for anyone who is used to that term). It was in PE class, and it resembled the traditional sports-centered PE that a few (I don't exactly know how much though, I'm still relatively new) of the members here have endured. Sorry if I didn't go to too much detail, but everyday we either play a sport or the sport itself was an entire unit.
Now, do not get me wrong, I am not trying to say that sports should be banned for schools forever, or it should be terminated off from the face of the earth. I'm simply saying, why force it down on others when they simply have ZERO interest in doing such things? I know life can be unfair and you must endure some things whether you like it or not, but schools should really offer at least a chance of having sports as something separate. My views are identical to Earl's, make sports-oriented PE an elective class for those who like sports, and leave the other students that have no interest in it pursue a class that would actually be helpful to their education.
Sorry for that long tangent, it's quite interesting to see what other people hate about sports from another end of the spectrum. Sometimes, it gets quite annoying when athletes are viewed as a paragon of excellence just because of playing some sport. Blasphemy in my eyes. To me, they're just people that just manage to play a sport really well. The amount of money these athletes earn is just nothing sort of ridiculous, and they even demand more?
Sorry for the extremely late welcome, school has kept me busy. I hope you enjoy your time here.
Au Revoir,
Silence
Welcome to the forum. I can definitely understand your hate for sport. It's quite amazing that we both hate it in a relatively same reason, which is drive it down other people's throats, or something close to that. However, for me, my hatred of sports began developing when I was in Middle School (or Junior High for anyone who is used to that term). It was in PE class, and it resembled the traditional sports-centered PE that a few (I don't exactly know how much though, I'm still relatively new) of the members here have endured. Sorry if I didn't go to too much detail, but everyday we either play a sport or the sport itself was an entire unit.
Now, do not get me wrong, I am not trying to say that sports should be banned for schools forever, or it should be terminated off from the face of the earth. I'm simply saying, why force it down on others when they simply have ZERO interest in doing such things? I know life can be unfair and you must endure some things whether you like it or not, but schools should really offer at least a chance of having sports as something separate. My views are identical to Earl's, make sports-oriented PE an elective class for those who like sports, and leave the other students that have no interest in it pursue a class that would actually be helpful to their education.
Sorry for that long tangent, it's quite interesting to see what other people hate about sports from another end of the spectrum. Sometimes, it gets quite annoying when athletes are viewed as a paragon of excellence just because of playing some sport. Blasphemy in my eyes. To me, they're just people that just manage to play a sport really well. The amount of money these athletes earn is just nothing sort of ridiculous, and they even demand more?
Sorry for the extremely late welcome, school has kept me busy. I hope you enjoy your time here.
Au Revoir,
Silence