The Asteroid Project

As a Primary school teacher, I agree with all of this. There is plenty of sport at schools right now, sometimes it could be said that there is too much.

The assumption/equation that more money + more sport at Primary school = more gold medals is demented and ludicrous.

I highly recommend this pithy interview with Norm Hart of the Australian Primary Principals Association. Primary schools, he says, are not responsible for Olympic success.

theagevsheraldsun:

I don’t normally do this, but the flashboards have been behaving themselves rather irritatingly of late, and there’s only so much you can do in 140 characters on Twitter. So here we are. If it goes well, I may do this again.

I read yesterday that AOC boss John Coates said that making sport…

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   THIS

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   Never has there been truer words.

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   As a Primary school teacher, I agree with all of this. There is plenty of sport at schools right now, sometimes it could...

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    My opinion exactly. My personal feelings toward sports in schools is exactly this. Not to mention I was also eleven and...

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23. originalgameboy said: Totally agree. Some people are so put of touch with reality these days.
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