http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: '50% of medals from 7% of population' en Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:59 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8000#post-80341 Thu, 02 Aug 2012 23:43:05 +0000 559 80341@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>My kids were at a secondary school in Edinburgh, though now left, it appeared that the PE teachers had little enthusiam to teach sports, when doing badminton they provided no skills training.<br /> IMHO success at sports comes down to the teachers attitude,regardless of quality of facilities. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8000#post-80340 Thu, 02 Aug 2012 23:29:31 +0000 crowriver 80340@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Tom, there was plenty of sport in the comprehensives where I was schooled too. However the teachers' strikes of the mid-1980s changed a lot of things. I'm not sure we can really blame teachers for that: they were trying to defend jobs and government funding for schools, which was being cut and/or changed. </p> <p>In wealthier areas, parents of children in state schools step into the breach to support extra-curricular activities (mirroring some aspects of private education). In poorer areas they don't or often simply can't take the time out of work. This is as true of primary schools as it of secondary. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8000#post-80322 Thu, 02 Aug 2012 21:49:12 +0000 Tom 80322@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hard to see how much more emphasis could have been made on sport in our school. The sporty kids were top of the tree. </p> <p>Whan I did teacher training seven years after leaving and after teachers had decided to withhold the time they had previously given free to support extra-curricular activities the head-teacher of the school I worked in described school sport as a sop to the non-academic kids. That was a big change. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8000#post-80313 Thu, 02 Aug 2012 20:33:15 +0000 Nelly 80313@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>There is more emphasis on sport in fee paying schools.</p> <p>Cant blame them, but state schools need to put it further up the agenda.</p> <p>I speak as a former pupil of Gilmerton primary, and Liberton high - sport not exactly top of their agenda - probably why I dont have Olympic medals on the sideboard......... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8000#post-80312 Thu, 02 Aug 2012 20:29:06 +0000 Tom 80312@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>We did rugby, cricket, athletics, swimming, cross-country and circuit training. Also volleyball, basketball, badminton, trampolining etc. All compulsory and pursued with determination by the PE teachers who got kids to the Scottish Championships. It was a comprehensive. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8000#post-80311 Thu, 02 Aug 2012 20:14:47 +0000 crowriver 80311@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Baldcyclist: It might be more accurate to say that those with control of resources arrange the system to try and ensure that their offspring continue to control the resources.</p> <p>The aristocracy is a good example of this social model in practice over many generations. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8000#post-80308 Thu, 02 Aug 2012 19:42:14 +0000 Baldcyclist 80308@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Perhaps it's just simply that success breeds success? [Ducks for cover] </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8000#post-80306 Thu, 02 Aug 2012 19:14:57 +0000 crowriver 80306@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@custard, this latter also goes for the state schools in middle class areas, eg. in Edinburgh Gillespie's, Boroughmuir. What they lack though are the same level of facilities, budgets for equipment, etc. as the better private schools. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8000#post-80305 Thu, 02 Aug 2012 19:04:44 +0000 custard 80305@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>TBH its not as simple as he makes out<br /> yes private schools offer greater facilities and opportunities.<br /> however you also have a greater posibility of involved parents,parents with time for extra curricula activities and funds to go with it etc </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8000#post-80298 Thu, 02 Aug 2012 18:15:51 +0000 crowriver 80298@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Maybe if they hadn't flogged off all the school playing fields at the behest of the Tories... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8000#post-80291 Thu, 02 Aug 2012 17:27:14 +0000 chdot 80291@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"<br /> 50 per cent of the medals won by Team GB in Beijing in 2008 were secured by athletes educated in the independent sector, who made up just seven per cent of the population.</p> <p>"</p> <p>"<br /> Lord Moynihan has condemned the dominance of public school-educated athletes in Team GB as “wholly unacceptable” and called for an overhaul of the education system to increase the number of state-school pupils winning medals</p> <p>"</p> <p><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/news/9446407/Team-GB-chief-dominance-of-public-schools-in-is-unaccepable.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/news/9446407/Team-GB-chief-dominance-of-public-schools-in-is-unaccepable.html</a> </p>