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A researcher asked 10 people to go car-free for 20 days. None wanted to continue (www.brisbanetimes.com.au)
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Article about an experiment from Brisbane, Australia.

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[–] 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

There are enough kids in nearby schools

Maybe in a big city. The district I worked the most for was big enough that most matches were within the district. But when you think about most small towns, which maybe have one or two high schools, that’s not going to be true at all.

Even with that - are the nearby schools the same division? Lots of sporting leagues have restrictions on who can play who (bigger schools playing bigger schools instead of smaller ones, an attempt to be fair usually).

Heck, even leaving sports out I drove an hour out for a FIRST tournament recently.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Small towns almost always need personal transport. But the definition of a small town in US is much bigger than most other developed places (my experience is EU, SKorea, Japan)

    If it's a small town, there's not going to be many big or small schools. Why such a weird system 😅

    If significant travel is required, the school should organise travel and stay. Unless the kid is participating in state level at U-12, there is no significant travel for play in Japan and Germany (for popular sports). The kid is a kid afterall. And study is also important

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    When I was in high school, our track team all met at the high school and got on a bus to the other schools matches, often they were long rides. However, the school provided the bus transpo. I think that was true for all the HS sports leagues. I think the same occurred for the middle school. The elementary school? I don't know, I don't think they had inter-school sports. Mostly kids were in local leagues where businesses sponsored teams and they played in local parks. (At least that was how it was in a village I lived in Long Island. We had a few ballfields and just rotated through them. For winter sports like basketball, they used the church gyms and local rec center. Believe me, my parents never drove us to any activity other than a school drop off.

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