I wish for a change in policy from Grammar the High to allow sport based players to bring the comp back to 8. Now I know this may bring up voice of the thread that must not be mentioned but if we are going to combine CAS and GPS I would rather get GPS back to full strength somehow. Happy to keep 3rds comp how it is.
HelLo Balmain Suddies
One can hope and dream, but the reality is that the Grammar Community have chosen academic elitism over sport, particularly Rugby. Until Grammar parents decide that their son's HSC score, should be complemented by an extensive sports programme, it is unlikely to change.As for High, government policy has decided that selective testing based heavily, on Maths and Science, shall determine placings at High.
These are attitudes will not disappear overnight, in fact amongst the Australian Chinese community, the spending of small fortunes upon coaching to ensure their son, obtains a place in a selective High School is obsessive. On occasions it reaches a moral form of Child Abuse, as some children are forbidden during the School Holidays to enjoy themselves, by going to the Movies.
However, I suspect this attitude in the coming decades, will be watered down as their children become more culturally Australian. I have already seen" push back" by some first born Australian Chinese Children. So what Grammar, High and other schools are now experiencing, I suspect is a parental push that will continue for the current generation. After, that the second generation will have become what recently arrived Chinese migrants call Aussie Chinese kids, "Bananas". Yellow on the outside, but white and Australian on the inside.( My apologies to anyone offended by these racist taunts, but the phrase is well established within the Australian Chines community.).
