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Re: girls in PE
Posted by E.allen on 5/18/08
On 4/15/08, KC wrote:
> On 1/12/06, tn wrote:
>> I hope I am qualified to ask this question here because I
>> AM a teacher, but not a PE teacher. Our PE teacher will
>> not allow girls to play football. He separates the girls
>> from the boys, lets the boys play football, and makes the
>> girls just pass around a gym ball. One of the girls
> nicely
>> asked the PE teacher if the girls could play football, and
>> the PE teacher took her outside the gym and chewed her out
>> for 20 minutes! He came back into the gym rambling to a
>> staff member that "nobody dictated what he did in PE, etc,
>> etc". I don't want to use the term loosely, but this
> seems
>> to be sexual discrimination? Am I right or just out of my
>> league?
>
>
> LOL, I think I went to that highschool!! I am a PE teacher as well, in an elementary school. I had a
football unit in the fall and my 4th and 5th grade students
played a football type game called “Pass the Pig”, girls and
boys! Pass the Pig uses many football skills but no tackling
or flags, no line of scrimmage and allows maximum
participation, which is what PE should be. There is no reason
girls should be excluded from the game. I created this game so
that more students could be a part of the game, regardless of
gender or natural physical ability. Maybe a better idea would
be to have the girls play their own football game (girls play
girls and boys play boys) or not play football at all if it’s
going to exclude half of the class. I can tell you a lesson
like that at my school would not be looked upon lightly.
To add to my PE experiences, my husband coached football at
our local high school and use to coach at the middle school.
In middle school he had girl on his team. Let me remind you
this is not PE class this is the full pads and helmets kind of
football. He tells me she was his starting safety and corner,
starting every game but two. To add to her football skills she
was also a undefeated 105lb wrestler in middle school.
What I’m trying to say is that girls should not be excluded
from a PE activity. Whether that is sexual discrimination or
not, I’m not sure, I’m not a lawyer. But I’m sorry to hear
your PE teacher treats your students so differently.
Posts on this thread, including this one
- girls in PE, 1/12/06, by tn.
- Re: girls in PE, 4/14/06, by cj.
- Re: girls in PE, 4/14/06, by stephenpe .
- Re: girls in PE, 5/01/06, by Courtney King.
- Re: girls in PE, 5/01/06, by Courtney King.
- Re: girls in PE, 4/15/08, by KC.
- Re: girls in PE, 5/16/08, by Teacher.
- Re: girls in PE, 5/18/08, by E.allen.
- Re: girls in PE, 5/19/08, by Maritza.
- Re: girls in PE, 5/22/08, by Ash Ash.
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