Australian Rugby / RA

[stillmissit]

I by no means suggested that reduced participation in school sports isn't problematic, simply that your implication around transport being one of the biggest issues was potentially misguided.

I should have made it clear that this was a part of the article about the costs of buses. I have a daughter who is a teacher and she thinks there is far less aport than 10 years ago.

To @Braveheart81's point, that only considers organised sport. If you look at sports participation more holistically, you see that number reduced to ~25% (2022).
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Sports participation rates have maintained reasonably stable among kids over the years (unable to locate a graph which shows this unfortunately, but the raw data is available), and has actually increased very significantly since 2001 when considering all age groups.
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If you're interested, AusPlay (where I've pulled these from) have a substantial number of reports and raw data available.

Edit: Worth noting as well that participation in the 'Child' demographic is substantially dragged down by the 0-4 age group (~50%), with all other age groups sitting ~85%

Thanks Le Cheese I will look into this. My daughter teaches in a private school and half the year 50% of students have to do sport the 2nd half the other half have to do it. Very odd.

 

[stillmissit]

I by no means suggested that reduced participation in school sports isn't problematic, simply that your implication around transport being one of the biggest issues was potentially misguided.

I should have made it clear that this was a part of the article on SMH re the costs of buses.