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Originally Posted by Mike Brewer
Less concern overall with being a babysitter's club. That goes for nearly every martial arts school, and is not aimed at TKD in particular. The function of martial arts fell apart when dojos, dojangs, and gyms became after-school programs instead of slef-protection methods. They still serve a valid function as such, but I would like to see martial arts become martial arts again.
Let the kids join the scouts. It does a far better job of making them better people than martial arts can.
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I don't know about that one - older men leading young boys into the woods - questionable practice these days.
Somehow, little Tommy is better off in a class with other liitle tykes, where mommy knows where he's at, they are all learning a little self-discipline, self-defense, and self-respect, and the garlic breath leading the class already has that as a strike against his ever hoping to possibly sweet talk any of them into some sort of extra-curricular belt "exam" - that, I think "God"
would approve!
Go Korean "Karate!"