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If it was important to you that your kid have experience running races, why didn't you set them up in your backyard, or sign her up for track, or in some way take responsibility for her learning this?  Blaming the school for the fact that your kid didn't figure out that some people run races is a little bizarre.

I'm guessing that the fastest kids in your kid's class know that they're the fastest.  They don't need races in PE to figure it out.  They know who gets to the ball quickest in soccer, and who looks like the wind when they run down the sidewalk at the end of the day.  [/quote]

I think you are missing my point. I never gave it much thought until she mentioned to me that they had never raced. I think it would be kind of strange for me to set up races with her peers in my backyard, but thanks for the suggestion...[/quote]

I'm not the PP, but my point is that I'm seriously surprised that your child evidently went through elementary school without ever running in PE or at recess. I know who the fast runners and the slow runners are in my child's class, because she's told me. And how does she know? A lot of the PE activities involve running, and they also run races at recess, organized by themselves -- after which they have arguments about who won.[/quote]

Once again, my children did not get to race their peers in PE. All of their PE activities were set up to be non-competitive so that you couldn't really tell who was better. They ran all the time in PE. But they did not have to run their absolute fastest against their peers. They couldn't race at recess because their playground is full of tire chips.

Yes, the kids who were already interested in running in ES probably knew if they were fast. They probably raced on their own. DD did not have any interest in running/track until she saw it listed as an option in MS. Thinking back, she realized that she never HAD to race anyone at school. [/quote]

In my experience as a teacher, the change in PE has little to do with not being competitive, and a lot to do with the goal of keeping kids moving every minute.  When I was kid in elementary school P.E., we spent a lot of time waiting our turn to shoot the basketball, or waiting our turn to run the lap in the relay race.  There were studies that came out that showed that kids got very little physical benefit from P.E. since they were sitting or standing still for most of it.  So, there's been a change in P.E. programming to more activities where every kid is moving for most of the class.  This pretty much rules out running races.[/quote]

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