4 Feb, 2015
Save rounders! It’s the only sport for people who hate sport
The Department of Education has quietly dropped rounders from the GCSE curriculum. Claire Cohen (once a mean bowler) is appalled. Well, consider me well and truly bowled over.
This, despite the game – currently played by seven million boys and girls in 80 per cent of Britain’s secondary schools – being one of the most popular options among the 100,000 teenagers who choose the PE qualification each year.
Critics have called the move ‘sexist’, arguing that it will discourage girls from exercising.
More than that, they say, it flies in the face of the new Sport England ‘This Girl Can’ campaign, which aims to get more women into grassroots sport.
