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Post by schlager7 on Apr 6, 2011 8:16:50 GMT -6
Crossing my fingers for now, but I have an appointment tomorrow morning with the head of a private, grade 1-8 school in Galveston to offer fencing as an after school club for their students.
The local, private, Catholic high school is interested in something similar. I hope to meet with them within the week.
A nice touch is a lot of the high school's students matriculated there from the elementary/intermediate school I am visiting tomorrow.
If you are reading this Adam, I may have another high school for your league in a year or so...
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Post by nemo on Apr 6, 2011 8:24:27 GMT -6
I am not sure if I see the point. Why start a high school fencing club in a town as small as Galveston. It would seem to make more sense to have them join whatever local fencing club exists in their area.
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Post by seguin on Apr 6, 2011 11:20:56 GMT -6
Well, for one thing you will still reach students who might not join an off-campus club.
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Post by Adam on Apr 6, 2011 12:56:42 GMT -6
That and school clubs are also more affordable more often than not. Good luck John and keep me posted!
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Post by schlager7 on Apr 6, 2011 18:03:17 GMT -6
Seguin & Adam both make good points. In fairness, however, the real benefit works like this:
The single biggest issue holding back the growth of fencing is the relatively small number of coaches. GFC, as a group, can certainly teach kids with no background in fencing the basics. Real growth, however, needs something more.
Almost all schools have some form of coaching of some sports. Basically, they have people with a professional knowledge of physical education. They just don't know fencing (which is a big reason it does not get taught).
If we can slowly interest the PE instructors in place to learn the basics of fencing, it would be a small effort to include it in PE classes. In our case, we have a chance to influence that at both a grade 1-8 school and a grade 9-12 school. Now we get fencers with some experience before the freshman year going into high school fencing.
Also, Galveston County has a number of private schools. It might be easier to get an "in" with other such schools once we have one or two on board.
At any rate, we will see...
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Post by seguin on Apr 8, 2011 11:17:27 GMT -6
So this is working from the premise of "a rising tide lifts all ships?"
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