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"tango4" wrote:

I'll throw something else into the pot here. The golf club I'm a member of
has a golf gaademy on site. Youngsters of 15 to 16 with handicaps of 10 and
under can apply to join the academy for a year. At the end of which the can
acheive 2 'A' Level credits. These are accepted as credit towards a place at
university with a view to careers in sports management. Is this sort of
thing a possible source of future soaring pilots? How about gliding as an
optional high school subject?

Something like this may now be possible here in New Zealand. The
new(ish) NCEA structure allows credits for activities outside school. I
understand that things such as drama and dance and music are in the
process of being put into the system.

We already have a pretty good and well-organized syllabus in gliding,
with well defined acheivements and goals. It probably wouldn't be a
huge effort to get into the NCEA system.

I have a 14 year old daughter who I've taken gliding a few times --
though not for three or four years (and not because I don't offer). I
ran a straw poll past her and some friends. The response: "We could
learn to fly instead of doing geography? Cooooool!"

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