Not really true, lots of schools have professional football coaching, for example. They don't make a vast amount of money and they work in six places, but they exist.
I think if anything there is more than enough Judo coaches that could teach kids in schools, it's just that schools are unwilling.
Not that I'm that old, but Boxing was talked about being reintroduced when I was still in school. However, that discussion was fizzled out eventually. It was standard British teaching but I think a lot of parents didn't like the idea of a 'violent' sport in school. But Hockey was alright.
I don't think it is. The district of Tokyo I worked in had 10 junior high schools, none had judo. I think it's one of those martial arts myths.
There is a facebook page dedicated to starting wrestling in UK schools - it is pretty much defunct now. Really need more wrestling classes in the UK - British Wrestling's find a club page show some big spaces with no classes
All Japanese schools have to offer a budo sport as part of PE classes, Most have kendo clubs, most of the kids dislike anything martial Source - a mate living over there working in schools.
Fair enough. Relatively new then (Despite the many possible benefits to be accrued from budÅ, several problems remained unsolved between the 2006 reform and its implementation in 2012). I was surprised how few of the kids did martial arts, then again I don't think the Japanese were any more into martial arts than Brits at the time. They did love their puroresu though. It was featured in the sports pages of the newspapers and the majority of people thought it was real.
Good news for UK wrestling. (Madatory from 2012.) First I heard of that, thanks for the article. My experience was the same as Bozza Bostik's, not in PE, but there were judo / kendo school clubs. After the Allied occupation it was part of maditiory education for, I'd like to say, about 35 years. From what I gathered, it was not popular. Honestly the re-introducement won't do much for judo's / kendo's /etc's popularity and may just exacerbate the risks to the participants in these sports/arts. Although the latter applies more to judo than to kendo.
I don't think we had any judo or kendo clubs either, definitely not in the two schools I worked at. I remember one of the other guys was captain of his university wrestling team back in the states and was hoping to join some after school MA club (the guy really hated spending money), but it wasn't available, so he went to do some judo with the police at their dojo.