Posted at 7:00 p.m.
School is not a catch-all
The project is excellent. Its application remains to be structured. This educational component must be outside the school, under the responsibility of people competent in the subject, and no adequate timetable for the involvement of families. The education time is more than restricted to cover the curricula. The physical education component is well defined – it also includes health. In short, school is not a catch-all. Let her continue her mission.
Aline Couillard
fanatical parents
The problem is not with the young hockey players, but rather with the fanatical parents who live their child’s life vicariously. There is talk of introducing part of the Norwegian model. Each time recommendations to this effect have been proposed, the rage of the parents who infiltrate the committees and influence the coaches – many parents among them – has caused Hockey Quebec to back down. Let the children have fun without constraints…
Roland Vidal
Everyone has their role
Being a retired elementary school teacher (both in physical education and as a homeroom teacher), my mandate kept growing over the years: teaching good eating habits, sexuality, citizenship, science and technology. , robotics, and so on. Now the skate! Maybe in physical education class. In disadvantaged areas, many children do not even have skates. The timetable is already full and I am wondering when we will find the time to teach the basic subjects. It is also up to the parents to see to the development of the physical abilities of their children. The mandate of the public school increases more and more and that of the parents decreases. To each their own role! The teachers may well be exhausted!
Carole Lorrain
From limits to control
The report is good. However, until the tax policy for officials is known, the report will actually be shelved, because there are not enough officials. Officials, who are also in the labor market, will continue to desert the profession, as in recent years. As a result, young beginners will not be able to have mentoring as planned in the report. In addition, requiring adult leagues to be members of Hockey Quebec is not appropriate. Again, this is a hidden tax. There are limits to control. The mandate of the committee was to promote the sport of hockey for young people.
Serge Morneau
And the money in all this?
It’s nice to dream. It is honorable and commendable. But in the real world, where will we find the money? We will make cuts in health, education, home care and even infrastructure. A report of good intentions which will remain on the office of the Prime Minister, for lack of means. Our dreams are beyond our means to achieve them.
Michel Damphousse
Cheer
I believe that there will be an improvement, and congratulations for having finally understood to take hockey seriously in Quebec. In addition to elementary school, secondary, college and university levels should be able to offer hockey teams. Academic support combined with sports development should be an integral part of the student’s curriculum. Hockey should be represented in as many establishments as possible. After their junior hockey internship, college hockey should be the natural outlet for undrafted players at the professional level and be a stage of development for the 14% of NHL players who make it despite everything. Playing for your school, college and university provides a greater sense of belonging than representing a city, often adoption and draft. In addition to the college network, universities (10 in number in Quebec) could stir up the feeling of belonging and generate shared revenues from municipalities, supporters, by-products, etc. And thus allow young women and young men in Quebec to earn a diploma, adopt healthy lifestyles and contribute to lowering the abnormally high rate of functional illiterates in Quebec.
John Gadbois
All that for this…
I know that my opinion will not be popular in Quebec, but I am against the idea of spending a ton of taxpayers’ money to promote a sport that is expensive in more than one respect. It’s not just a question of helping less well-off families to buy equipment, it’s above all of mobilizing large sums to build arenas. Here in Gatineau, we have spent over $37.4 million in public funds to build a multi-ice complex at a total cost of over $100 million, with more to come. All this for the practice of a sport whose models would be prosecuted for assault if their actions were not committed on a skating rink. I am completely in favor of the idea of getting our youth moving and giving more space to girls in amateur sport, but from there to making hockey a model, no thank you. Again in Gatineau, we will soon consider spending tens of millions of dollars for a second multi-ice complex. Meanwhile, when I want to bike to my neighborhood park with my kids, I have to settle for paint lines on the ground to keep us safe as we move actively into physical activity. That’s what I call having a sense of priorities upside down.
Jean-Francois Danis