Just Thoughts

On Wednesday lectures end early. In the morning you’d see most students in sports uniforms and equipment heading to the university. After lectures end, all the grass fields are filled up with students practising some kind of sport. Even schools as I walk by, children are out in the playground in groups, each playing a sport.

This is a day in UK, Wednesday is sports day.

Why don’t we have this in Kuwait ?

I’m not sure how was it for you, but for me back in the days, P.E. had the lowest priority. Most of the times we never actually got around to having that class, I’m not sure how we were graded! The slot was always taken by other subjects and when we managed to get around to having P.E., we just changed into our sports clothes and sit idly for 45 minutes, chatting and walking around. Most of the P.E. teachers were overweight with not physical fitness at all!!! School did not encourage sports at all.

Why don’t we have day like that? GOD knows we desperately need physical activities with all the obesity rate in our country. And it is important both to boys and girls.

We’ll have it on a Tuesday, middle of the week. Schools have their own covered gym. Some sports can be taken to other places, like sports club arena. In winter sports can be taken outside. If they don’t have enough P.E. teachers to cover a school or a district, outsource and not to single contract. I think it is better to contract on individual basis, that way assessing the individual’s qualification is more accurate and less troublesome with all the hassle of dealing with strikes because the contracted empolyer didn’t pay the employees.

School sports doesn’t have to be only about competitions and only the competed sports and students get all the attention, it should be about ensuring that individuals have a sport that they enjoy and will continue to practice throughout their lives and who knows maybe make a career out of it. “يمكن اتعدل الأوضاع الرياضية عندنا”