Of all of the shattered stakeholders nonetheless reeling from the information that Australia has slipped additional down the OECD international schooling rankings, none might be hurting as a lot because the AFL.
The league’s CEO Gillon McLachlan and his fellow executives know there can solely be one believable cause for this – not sufficient youngsters are eager about footy.
If this appears far-fetched, think about how a lot there’s to study from learning the AFL ladder. There’s proportion, permutations and mixtures. The scoreboard taught generations of youngsters the 6-occasions desk, whereas footy playing cards improved spelling with names like Jesaulenko, Duperouzel and Dipierdomenico.
And it isn’t simply Maths and English, but in addition artwork. The visualization of knowledge is perhaps all the fashion now, however artists corresponding to Jasper Johns have been portray numbers and letters method again when the Demons have been the VFL’s unassailable powerhouse.