I, too, was always picked last for gym and sports. I hated it so bad that once I begged my second-grade teacher not to make me go out on the field. She looked up at me and, in her most contemptous voice, said, "What makes you so special?"
How about the fact that I was always sickly? I had anemia, asthma, a nervous disorder (physically-based, I was to find out three years later-long story), shocking thinness, and the tendency to nearly black out if I exerted myself too much (caused by the same physical problems)? But there were no exceptions; PE was "good" for everybody.
The other kids were absolutely swinish towards me, but I've pretty much gotten over that, but I have a hard time forgiving the teacher for treating an obviously suffering child in such a way.
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I, too, was always picked last for gym and sports. I hated it so bad that once I begged my second-grade teacher not to make me go out on the field. She looked up at me and, in her most contemptous voice, said, "What makes you so special?"
How about the fact that I was always sickly? I had anemia, asthma, a nervous disorder (physically-based, I was to find out three years later-long story), shocking thinness, and the tendency to nearly black out if I exerted myself too much (caused by the same physical problems)? But there were no exceptions; PE was "good" for everybody.
The other kids were absolutely swinish towards me, but I've pretty much gotten over that, but I have a hard time forgiving the teacher for treating an obviously suffering child in such a way.