I sucked at dodge ball, but it's not like I lie awake at night with emotional scars. Sometimes I worry that kids are being TOO protected and at the first sign of rejection or not being accepted, they'll freak. Humans are humans no matter how long you put it off.
Plus our dodge ball games were always supervised - no throwing too hard, or your butt was out of the game pronto.
I do remember that in 4th or 5th grade, we chose kickball/dodgeball/softball teams at the beginning of the year and that was your team for the rest of the year so you only had to go through the picking crap once. Or since we only had 2 rooms for every grade, that worked too (room vs. room).
[This message has been edited by 33girl (edited May 29, 2001).]
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