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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
A football game is not about getting kids to be more physically fit, but gym class is, and I see the goal of such programs to be more like a gym class than a football game.
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At school level the football program should also have an element of inclusiveness, and the possibility of playing at a casual "keep fit" level as well as going out for the top team.
PLEASE let the fastest win sometimes! But reading isn't a competitive sport.
UNLESS - and it's a big unless - in this particular library, with this particular staff and these particular kids it all worked well, everyone had a good time and lots of kids read more than they would have. Dogma mustn't destroy something good.
I worked at one elementary school where one teacher was a chess fanatic. That school swept the board at regional championships. Horribly elitist! But it worked, the whole school shared in the pride, and it would have been idiotic to stop it.