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Was the NAS involved in reforms to the school PE curriculum?

Arran

Michael Gove's new curriculum reforms have resulted in school PE lessons having a heavier emphasis on competitive teams sports than those under the previous government. It is well known that most children with ASD have difficulties with competitive team sports which means that they will derive less benefit and enjoyment of such lessons compared with those offering less competitive physical activities.

Was there any input from the NAS, during consultation procedures or otherwise, into the reforms to the PE curriculum? 

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  • There is another side to this, without wanting to overstate the similarities, but it is nevertheless something to be concerned about.

    The perverse ideas of the *** about racial purity and fitness was in a large part a product of the youth fitness programmes across Europe, including the UK, in the 1920s and 1930s.

    These were set up with good intentions to help inner city dwellers, deprived backgrounds etc achieve better health, morals and purpose. They were run as camps, with walking and running in the hills, and lots of team games. In Germany this gave rise to a lot of notions about the better classes of fit people. Organisations like Hitler Youth started as youth fitness programmes.

    It may seem a colossal jump to compare this with the Government's initiatives for more competitive team sports, but the rehetoric is very similar. And while the TV adverts show a mix of ethicities shouting "rugby, football, raise your game" there's a risk it is just tokenism. The lack of awareness of disability issues other than just those met by paraplegic sport, may be a little more than just oversight.

    There are undertones to all this that make it sound less like combatting overweightness in some school kids, and more about some kind of selectivity. I suspect the people behind this are not what most people would regard as morally sound.

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  • There is another side to this, without wanting to overstate the similarities, but it is nevertheless something to be concerned about.

    The perverse ideas of the *** about racial purity and fitness was in a large part a product of the youth fitness programmes across Europe, including the UK, in the 1920s and 1930s.

    These were set up with good intentions to help inner city dwellers, deprived backgrounds etc achieve better health, morals and purpose. They were run as camps, with walking and running in the hills, and lots of team games. In Germany this gave rise to a lot of notions about the better classes of fit people. Organisations like Hitler Youth started as youth fitness programmes.

    It may seem a colossal jump to compare this with the Government's initiatives for more competitive team sports, but the rehetoric is very similar. And while the TV adverts show a mix of ethicities shouting "rugby, football, raise your game" there's a risk it is just tokenism. The lack of awareness of disability issues other than just those met by paraplegic sport, may be a little more than just oversight.

    There are undertones to all this that make it sound less like combatting overweightness in some school kids, and more about some kind of selectivity. I suspect the people behind this are not what most people would regard as morally sound.

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