But then, we only played it in elementary school in my district. Nobody was mean about it. I've seen the "dogdeball is hell" stereotype in movies and TV shows, and that just never happened in any class I was ever in.
We mostly did two versions in P.E. at my school. In one, one team lined up on the wall and the other team kicked the red rubber-type balls at people and tried to hit them. You weren't allowed to aim at people's heads if you could help it, and having to kick it rather than throw it kept that kind of thing down, as well. (Harder to aim, for a little kid anyway, and harder to get as much force behind it.)
In the other, half of the class was guarding bowling pins placed around the gym, and the other half tried to throw nerf footballs to knock the bowling pins down from behind a certain line along the wall. If your pin got knocked down, whoever knocked it got to come set it up and take it over, and you had to go be one of the people behind the line. I was never terribly good at keeping a bowling pin alive for long...
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But then, we only played it in elementary school in my district. Nobody was mean about it. I've seen the "dogdeball is hell" stereotype in movies and TV shows, and that just never happened in any class I was ever in.
We mostly did two versions in P.E. at my school. In one, one team lined up on the wall and the other team kicked the red rubber-type balls at people and tried to hit them. You weren't allowed to aim at people's heads if you could help it, and having to kick it rather than throw it kept that kind of thing down, as well. (Harder to aim, for a little kid anyway, and harder to get as much force behind it.)
In the other, half of the class was guarding bowling pins placed around the gym, and the other half tried to throw nerf footballs to knock the bowling pins down from behind a certain line along the wall. If your pin got knocked down, whoever knocked it got to come set it up and take it over, and you had to go be one of the people behind the line. I was never terribly good at keeping a bowling pin alive for long...