Where I live, most public school students will at some point in their education will go on a (free) field trip to a nature preserve or national/provincial park which often includes canoeing. Even in downtown Toronto, there’s a notable push to expose students to nature and they’ve been bussing classes out of the city for a day.
I don’t know, maybe I’m just lucky (though I wouldn’t say entitled), that paddling around in a canoe/kayak is pretty normalized. I looked up some rentals around me and they were <$50 for a full day. Of course some can’t afford that, but it feels like a pretty good value for a full day of family activity.
If you assume everyone can afford canoe lessons, that comes across as pretty entitled to those of us who don’t have expendable income like that.
Where I live, most public school students will at some point in their education will go on a (free) field trip to a nature preserve or national/provincial park which often includes canoeing. Even in downtown Toronto, there’s a notable push to expose students to nature and they’ve been bussing classes out of the city for a day.
I don’t know, maybe I’m just lucky (though I wouldn’t say entitled), that paddling around in a canoe/kayak is pretty normalized. I looked up some rentals around me and they were <$50 for a full day. Of course some can’t afford that, but it feels like a pretty good value for a full day of family activity.