Like Norm, I am entirely unsurprised by this:
The Phrase “it’s not cricket” is reverberating again around state school classrooms. Good old-fashioned cricketing values have prompted an improvement in behaviour in schools, according to the evaluation of a project to promote the sport in schools to be published later this week.
The “Chance to Shine” scheme, designed to promote cricket in state schools by sending in club coaches to teach the game, has had a spin off beyond PE lessons. According to researchers at Loughborough University, schools which have taken part in the scheme report improved behaviour in school generally as a result of participating in it.
Admittedly even cricket cannot cure all. My own club, for instance, suffered a blow this summer when one young player – one, more to the point who could be relied upon to turn-up when he said he would – was sentenced to four months accommodation at Her Majesty’s Pleasure after a regrettable altercation in the town market square.
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