# What should children of today learn in school and from parents?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [February 27, 2006, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-children-of-today-learn-in-school-and-from-parents/346245 "2006-02-27T01:02:50Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-children-of-today-learn-in-school-and-from-parents/346245/21 "2006-02-28T12:40:42Z")

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[QUOTE=Tevildo]  
Which puts too many people off _any_ sort of exercise, because they associate it with the humiliation of team sports.  
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The problem isn’t with team sports, it’s with how they are managed. The school I went to had people grouped according to their ability. “A Team” footballers weren’t playing against people who could barely run.

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> Dance of various kinds, aerobics, yoga, weightlifting, martial arts, and running come to mind.

Again, a lot of these were also done at the school I attended. We did running, both sprints and cross country, gymnastics and dance. They were all **universally hated** , whereas team games like basketball, football, rugby and cricket were almost universally popular.

Besides, how exactly is forcing some fat kid to run around and lag behind the rest of the class any more morale boosting than having him play badly on a team 😕

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