When teachers at a rural school in NSW looked at why girls weren’t playing sports, they soon realised it had nothing to do with fitness or interest
Earlier this year, teachers at Gilgandra high school, five hours drive northwest of Sydney, noticed a drop in the number of girls participating in sports.
“We were brainstorming what the reason was that they were not participating, who the students were, and which activities they were not wanting to participate in,” says the school’s relieving deputy principal, Ilana Austen.
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