Comment 81121

By julie (registered) | Posted September 20, 2012 at 21:51:33

There is one point that I wonder about that hasn't come up yet.

I was the teacher-advisor for the school's wrestling team a few years ago. Believe me, I know nothing about wrestling, and apart from supporting it because I believe that people should be active and fit, I don't care about wrestling. Not one bit.

But there I was, 4 days a week, from 3:30 - 5:00, in or near the gymnasium (which is loud and dreadful) for 5 months of the year because the team couldn't run without a staff advisor. The team already had a coach, but apparently they needed a staff advisor. I did my marking while the coach ran the club. As the advisor, I then had to take time out of teaching (I think it was a two day tournament) to go to Windsor and watch wrestling matches all day. I took my marking.

It does seem to me that the team should be able to run without me. I honestly added nothing, but I had to be there or the kids couldn't have a team. Weird.

There have been several people here telling others to get involved and run the clubs themselves. I suspect, based on my teacher experience, that it's not an option. I don't know if that's absolutely the case in all boards and at both levels, but something seems wrong about that.

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