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I mentioned swimming as Camden is one of the top clubs in the country and runs out of the Swiss Cottage leisure centre. It’s not school based, but it’s definitely not elitist
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Think every sport requires specialist coaching at the top level, but many, maybe most, of these can be done with little outlay. Sure shooting, sailing and horses are a different thing.
Not sure how it related to “only fee paying schools are able to get success sports people in to talk to pupils though”!
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Agreed. Probably no sportsperson would be hobbled by access to specialised facilities and coaching, but experience shows that resource assymetry is more impactful in some sports.
Boxing, diving, weightlifting are a few of the less usual sports (i.e., not football or basketball) where kids from low-income families training without cutting-edge equipment commonly excel.
In contrast, for a kid to stand a chance at being competitive in the modern pentathlon, they need hundreds or thousands of hours access to fencing kit, a horse, a gun and ammo and range, a swimmable body of water, and space to run, as well as freedom away from chores or work. That’s the realm of fantasy for the vast majority of people, let alone children.
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Trump confirmed it in a really speech the other day
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But if you expand that to “successful sportspeople” which includes say all premier league footballers? I’m guessing at that point you’re more likely to get a visit if you’re at a state school.
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I guess something about the article annoyed me. Instead of focusing on “how can we inspire kids to take part in sports and generally achieve” it was inferring that parents of fee-paying school kids are the problem because they want their kids to go to schools that do this kind of thing. Or something.
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Yeah, fair enough. I’d extrapolated from this comment
There are wider things to note here, how #workingclass kids are never exposed to successful people
So working class is unsuccessful. Nice.
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Trigger alert for folks dealing with depression or anxiety about violence- avoid reading the news tomorrow, avoid the Southport story.
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It can mean just opening an unsolicited email. From the BBC:
"According to the CPS website, "making indecent images can have a wide definition in the law and can include opening an email attachment containing such an image, downloading one from a website, or receiving one via social media, even if unsolicited and even if part of a group.”
But in this case it seems to be a bit more than that:
"Mr Edwards is accused of having six category A images, the most serious classification of indecent images, on a phone. He is also accused of having 12 category B pictures and 19 category C photographs."
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Barbara Butch getting death and rape threats online after the opening ceremony. Imagine you get so offended by a bit of music and dancing that you wish death and rape on the people involved and yet somehow they're the sick and perverted ones.
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That said having worked out how to view the og posts and comments it's full of people saying their state school kids in the 90s and 00s had Olympians(sp?) visit off the back of specific programmes to get them to visit schools.
So I wonder how much is just that authors knee jerk reaction based on their biases.