Never heard of a field day for school until I moved to TN. As an elementary school principal, it is/was a pain in the ass. I handed it off to a committee and told them to deal with it.
I went to school pretty much of all the moms already. As the Rolling Stones said "TIiIime, is not on there side, no it ain't" lol. Local to where? I'm an hour east of Toronto near Mosport. African lion safari might be the drive through place?
LOL....i think a good idea would be to have the kids Field Day the school....maybe teach them a few things.
OMG field day was the best fucking thing ever. My whole town revolved around sports, including the school and teachers. Field day was legit. I spent weeks training for it. They set everything up the night before and I used to sneak out of the house about 11pm and walk to the school and practice the obstacle course so I would already have an idea of the layout. I held the course record for 3 years. Businesses closed down and people from town came to watch it (it was held on the football field). Kids not participating were let out of class to watch. The stadium would be full. 100yrd dash, 40yrd Sprint, bean bag toss, obstacle course, football toss, shot-put, potato sack races, hurdles, 1 mile run, broad jump, etc. It wasn’t any of this hippie shit, it was real sporting events and it was fucking intense. I wouldn’t be able to sleep for 2 days prior to it. I am scared to see how field day is now that the “everybody’s a winner” candyasses are trying to take over the country.
Dude, you are a cheater. Good to know young broome was just as competitive as present-day broome. I don't remember us ever having Field Day in Illinois.
Some reason I was thinking field trip, not (Track and) field days.....Only one coffee so far, and didn't really read the replies.... I don't think they have them here anymore, I could be wrong but we used to when I was a kid. High jump was my favorite. Wasn't particularly good at any of it, and doubt I ever "ribboned". In grade 6 a couple buddies and I were "Gym monitor's", which meant we got to skip class and set up all the equipment. We got so much extra practice, it was awesome.
Neither, Ice. Up here we don't preface skating with ice. It's just assumed that if you say skating, it means on ice. It's a dead give away that you're not Canadian when you say ice skating.
Hell yes! Man it was the highlight of the year in elementary and middle school. Down here its still kicking. Our middle school, gym everyday, run the mile once a week and every sport has a teacher vs kids game after the last game of the season. Have faith, still a lot of competition around.
There were no rules against scoping the field the day before. Technically, it wasn’t cheating...it was proper preplanning. It’s not my fault the other contestants didn’t do their due diligence.
Southern thing? Never heard of it. We took daily recess pretty serious though, football game everyday, rain or shine. Teeth were lost, noses were bloodied, tears were shed.
In the days of yore (heh-heh) if the kid fell on his face during a track event the coach would reassure him by telling him to hit the showers and he still had time to make the meeting of the chess club.
When I was elementary school they called it "Run for Fun". We competed against the other elementary schools in the county . 50 yrd dash, pull ups, 500 meter relay, that kind of stuff. They gave ribbons up to 8th place lol.