Caporegime
Well "decent" would be kind of my point, but are there schools where kids don't play tennis at all? Maybe things have changed since I was that age, but tennis was certainly ubiquitous in high school 20-25 years ago.
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Well "decent" would be kind of my point, but are there schools where kids don't play tennis at all? Maybe things have changed since I was that age, but tennis was certainly ubiquitous in high school 20-25 years ago.
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I went to school in Scotland and at primary or secondary school we didn't go near a tennis court although both schools weren't really focused at all on sports - essentially you played football or you played football if you wanted to do anything associated with the school.
There might have been a cross-country team and there were a few other sports offered in P.E. but the only one that was seriously offered at all was football.
Caporegime
Okay. Hmm, I wonder how representative that is, or whether things have changed since I went to school.
When I was in High School, I would have expected everyone to have played football, tennis, badminton, cricket, rounders, rugby and hockey. Plus on the athletics side: cross country running, high jump, long jump and the 100m, 200m, 400m and 800m. We also did a small smattering of other things on rare occasions: basketball, softball, indoor hockey, trampolining, a bit of gymnastics, javelin and discus.
I don't believe that the schools I went to were particularly unusual in what they offered, judging by the friends I knew at other schools. The first high school I went to had truly excellent PE teaching, Mr Shaw was honestly one of the best teachers I've ever had; the second high school was a rather different matter but still "taught" a range of sports.