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    Posted: 05 Feb 17 at 5:58pm
Originally posted by Sam.Spoons

Originally posted by Rupert

I'd prefer education over testing for my kids, but growing up going to a south London comp in the 70s, I'm not sure either was very well done. Seems better now than then.

Totally agree, when testing gets in the way of education something is going wrong. Maybe the problem with 1980s comprehensives was that they were trying a 'one size fits all' system that did nobody any favours. Education has to be tailored to the individual's abilities, it's no good teaching quantum mechanics to a student who's natural ability leans towards making beautiful furniture (or boats......) with their hands or visa versa. Testing should be used to find out what talents a student has and help them to realise their potential rather than brand them as success or failure.


which is why the best comps  were 'stealth trilaterals' and used setting and streaming intelligently.

One of the biggest problems education faces is the reverse snobbery of some people over education and  various activities  ( we'll not even  open the tray of tins of worms that labels activities as 'girls activities ' and 'boys activities ' and how oddly arbitrary  that distinction is made  ) ...   
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Originally posted by Do Different

Thumbs Up In addition to RYA courses we also run monthly coaching. Only a small club so not able to muster viable fleet coaching but do cater flexibly for whoever turns up both junior and adults and people do seem to enjoy it. 

spot on , as  coaching can take so many forms and depends on the people and boats available 

 skills and drills can be done   'alone' - does the current instructor handbook still have the 21  boat handling / racing skills exercises  listed along with  two -boat tuning  - a good number of them can be done  solo or  just with oversight   - this  is the 'barre work'   to pinch  term from ballet. 

if you have two boats of the same class   you can start doing some two boat tuning  and so on ... 
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So word has it the RYA are worried, (seriously worried) that participation might be also down at club racing level, not something I'm experiencing round here, it's pretty much static to improving if anything. How's things at your club participation wise?
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At my club:  Sunday racing massively down.  Wednesday evenings massively up. Open attendance down in double handers, but not in single handers (depending on current fashion).

General non-racing sailing much the same.

People don't want to devote a whole day to it, probably don't want to split up the weekend too much either. 


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participation up 33% across the board at Draycote apparently ... Thumbs Up
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