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It's just typical PC health and safety gone mad nonsense that teachers can't shoot pupils with ex-Boer War firearms
But it's not going to happen though, certainly not here in Wales !! 70 Dr's and academics sign a letter 🙄 you could get 700 to sign something saying the exact opposite.
The graph is pretty pointless without more details about the actual injuries. It's also been clearly misrepresented by the person posting it. Apart from that it's fine 😀
Does anyone know where the 70 signatories are based? As in, is it just a UK thing or are they further afield?
We had the stereotypical PE teachers as well. The only significant injury I can remember in school sport was when my best mate broke on of the teacher's legs playing cricket.
First they came for the rugby... What next, hockey with soft balls? Mind you, I do remember a member of the opposition breaking a leg at the under 16s girls southern county tournament.
Does anyone know where the 70 signatories are based? As in, is it just a UK thing or are they further afield?
A lot of them are ex UK as I said earlier and 10% seem to be from the University of Winchester, which I didn't know existed and I grew up a few miles away.
The Sport Collision Injury Collective is the group behind this letter.
http://www.sportcic.com/Researchers.php
As far as I can tell there isn't a medical doctor or a sports scientist among them. The group is entirely made up of sociologists.
What's worrying is that every story I read called them 'doctors', 'health experts', or 'health professionals'. Is this lazy journalism where no one could be bothered spending ten minutes on google or is there an agenda?
Samples...
Dr. Eric Anderson is Professor of Sport, Masculinities & Sexualities at the University of Winchester. He holds four degrees, has published 12 books, over 50 peer-reviewed articles, and is regularly featured in international television, print and digital media.
Professor Anderson is recognized for research excellence by the British Academy of Social Sciences and is a fellow of the International Academy of Sex Research.
and....
Neoliberalism and Social Justice in Coaching
His area of expertise is focused around sports sociology; explicitly gender and sexuality.
Oh, and...
As such his work engages with a variety of methodological approaches that engage the empirical (including ethnography and autoethnography, participant observation, discourse and media analysis, and contextual analysis) and deploy an equally fluid theoretical vocabulary, utilising concepts and theories from a variety of disciplines (including cultural studies, economics, history, health, education, media studies, performance studies, philosophy, sociology, and urban studies) in engaging and interpreting the particular aspect of physical culture under scrutiny.
PARKLIFE!