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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Wednesday, December 19, 2007 - 9:34 pm
I also hated the school yard pick and spent some times being picked last. I remember being the one to choose a team once. It was a small Catholic school and the 3rd and 4th grades had PE together. Two of the 4th graders, Jeff and Craig, were very fast runners, there was another 4th grader, Marty, who was pretty quick and the best friend of Jeff. I remember choosing Marty 1st thinking he would like that, instead of being 3rd choice, he was angry because he wasn't on his friends team and everyone else was mad becase the 2 fastest were on the same team. I am sure the school yard pick was the start of my life long hatred of PE which was certainly cemented in the 3rd grade. I beleived them when they said it didn't matter if you won or lost as long as you gave your best.
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Chiliwilli
Member
09-04-2006
| Thursday, December 20, 2007 - 2:15 am
School yard pick is an incredibly mean thing to foist on children IMO.
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Mammyyokum
Member
06-05-2005
| Friday, December 21, 2007 - 4:52 am
Schoolyard pick always left me for last which can break an arm in a rousing game of Red Rover. But when teachers choose, teacher's pets are more obvious and cause resentments in the classrooms.
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Allietex
Member
08-16-2002
| Friday, December 21, 2007 - 10:04 am
I really liked the random draw method best except when it was a real test of physical ability. Then it was only fair to try to even up the teams. That requires the teacher to just bite the bullet and do it her/his self. You avoid the teacher's pet problem by not putting all the "popular" kids or all of a group of friends on one team. Talk about seating at a dinner party. That pales in comparison to something like this.
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Babyjaxmom
Member
10-20-2002
| Tuesday, January 01, 2008 - 1:15 pm
Hey, there's a really nice interview with Sophia and her mom over at TWOP: Sophia Interview Sorry, I don't know how to make those links with just the words, like "Sophia Interview." <fixed it for you ~77>
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Puzzled
Member
08-27-2001
| Tuesday, January 01, 2008 - 9:44 pm
Good for you Allietex. Thank goodness we were never subjected to schoolyard picks. Our PE teachers would just call out the names of all the kids for one team, and the rest of the kids were on the other team. What is the point of schoolyard picks, anyway?
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Biscottiii
Member
05-29-2004
| Tuesday, January 01, 2008 - 10:01 pm
Puzzled asked: "What is the point of schoolyard picks, anyway?" To remind unpopular kids of how unpopular they are? Thanks Babyjaxmom, that was a GREAT interview with Sophie and her Mom! Enjoyed that, plus the funny YouTube interview of Sophie needing salt to boil water!
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Puzzled
Member
08-27-2001
| Tuesday, January 01, 2008 - 10:33 pm
To remind unpopular kids of how unpopular they are? Pretty sad(istic), isn't it?
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Chiliwilli
Member
09-04-2006
| Tuesday, January 01, 2008 - 11:08 pm
Yes, it is. And, teachers/coaches do it to kids every day.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Wednesday, January 02, 2008 - 7:37 am
I enjoyed the interview with Sophia. Thanks for posting it, Babyjax.
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Babyjaxmom
Member
10-20-2002
| Thursday, January 03, 2008 - 5:07 pm
You're welcome! 
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Seattlemom
Member
05-10-2005
| Monday, January 07, 2008 - 7:04 pm
Wow just read the interview with Sophia ( I know I'm slow) It was great thanks for the link
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Allietex
Member
08-16-2002
| Thursday, January 10, 2008 - 7:43 am
I think it is like a lot of things we do. That is the "way it has always been done." I don't think a lot of adults, unless they were one of the unpopular kids when they were growing up, really understand how tramatic it is. And the kids have been subjected to it all their lives so they often just accept it as the way things are. I know that one of the things I felt was as important as anything I did with the kids was to try to smooth their way into good relations with their classmates. And with little kids like first and second graders, there are a lot of sneaky ways to do that if you really pay attention.
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