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Should kids who are hopeless at team sports and hate PE lessons at school be engineers?

Arran Cameron
This might come across as a strange question...


Would you recommend engineering as a career for kids who are hopeless at team sports and hate PE lessons at school?


There appears to be far less research into kids who are hopeless at team sports and the resulting impact on careers than with kids that are useless at academics.
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    I know an engineer who attended a SEN needs school in the 1990s (that did not meet his SEN) where PE lessons were never called PE but were called games. He claims that the games teachers did not have sufficient knowledge of anatomy and physiology to teach GCSE PE and neither did they have any real interest in the human body. Instead they organised games lessons around team sports and gave credit to the sporty kids whilst despising kids who were no good at or did not enjoy team sports.


    The engineer was recognised by the PE teachers at his previous comprehensive school as being very good at javelin throwing and they said that with a bit more training he could be up to competition level. The SEN school did not do anything to nurture this talent despite it even being mentioned on his statement.
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    I know an engineer who attended a SEN needs school in the 1990s (that did not meet his SEN) where PE lessons were never called PE but were called games. He claims that the games teachers did not have sufficient knowledge of anatomy and physiology to teach GCSE PE and neither did they have any real interest in the human body. Instead they organised games lessons around team sports and gave credit to the sporty kids whilst despising kids who were no good at or did not enjoy team sports.


    The engineer was recognised by the PE teachers at his previous comprehensive school as being very good at javelin throwing and they said that with a bit more training he could be up to competition level. The SEN school did not do anything to nurture this talent despite it even being mentioned on his statement.
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