40% fewer members, between 20 and 35% fewer licensees, a desertion of the 3-11 age groups, a destabilization of the age pyramid and, to come, an overall decrease in licensees, a loss of 50,000 euros in revenue, another of 75,000 euros, and an overall fatigue of children having a harmful effect (sic!) on the biological aspect, etc…
Did a tsunami hit sports in Nice? No!
This catastrophic report is the inventory of the situation decried by the leaders of the most important clubs in the city after just one month of implementing the school rhythm law.
If after a month (sic!) we are here, can we just imagine what the situation will be in three years, at least until the law can be repealed in the event of a right-wing electoral victory in the 2017 presidential elections?
Will there even be a few clubs still active after such significant revenue losses? What about the sports licensees after the destabilization of the age pyramid or the overall fatigue that will have accumulated by then, becoming an unbearable burden?
One wonders about the reason and seriousness of these laments. An assessment after a month, is that serious?
Let’s ignore all that is economic, due to the lack of tangible elements that would allow us to prove or contradict it, but if we take the declared figures and multiply them, we find financial situations that are not found in subsidy requests! That’s saying something about seriousness…
Then, on what scientific basis can we simply speak of the “overall fatigue” of children when all experts report a need for mobility of at least 4 hours a day? On this topic, should we recall, for the record, that European school children attend school five, and sometimes six days a week and nearly 200 days a year?
As for the harmful effects on the biological aspect, one wonders what the correlation is with the school rhythms of such cryptic expression.
So, talking just to talk because one is part of a chorus is really not what is expected of responsible leaders who manage the sports training of children.
We well know that this school rhythm law was poorly conceived and that it is subject to political exploitation on both sides. The national imposition (why act by order instead of a law?) was followed by disorganization (willful in some cases) at the local level.
The problem of its cost is a real issue, but it is not with these acts of propaganda that things will move forward.
That the Mayor of Nice wants to make a political case is his right and his problem. Politics is that and sometimes much worse.
But that sports leaders participate in this “game” is intellectually and morally… miserable!
