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Outdoor Ed excluded from national curriculum 17-Apr-2012 At 2:56:49 PM kuu

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On 17/04/2012 earwig wrote:
>

>A group (including teachers, Outdoor Education Australia and Outdoor Council
>of Australia) have developed is an electronic petition asking people to
>acknowledge that outdoor education in schools is valuable and should be
>supported.
>

Outdoor Education in schools may well be valuable (are there any measurements?) BUT when it is conducted, in LARGE groups, at places like Arapiles then the benefit for students versus the impact on other users presents a different dynamic.

I would question the long term benefit accruing when thirty or so young people, some of whom have not really chosen to be present, find themselves at Arapiles for five days of "climbing" activity that of necessity needs to be delivered at a level suiting the lowest achiever.