SeanC wrote:I think it's worth trying all approaches if you can IMHO
Nice idea. From my perspective, Saxons are, aside from the last example of the active teacher, still using the family model though, it's just that for those two schools they are using the school as a channel to reach the families. As outlined, there is no schools development going on, and if there is, it's a sideline to the longer term development direction of getting youngsters to more regular events, from which they can be hopefully more easily recruited.
I think the key question is always going to be, how are the juniors going to get to events ('event' covering races, coaching et al). School development rarely deals with that, yet that's always been the crunch. To sme extent, the sport can be taken to the children, but for them to get involved in anything but a very superficial way, that challenge has to be addressed from the word go. That's why, in general terms, I've found a 'family' model will usually work better than a 'schools' model, unless you're very lucky with the teacher(s).
But, there's another very important point that has all too often been missed, that there are many ways to skin the proverbial cat, and that national development strategies need to include ways and means to support locally driven development that suits the local context, rather than putting eggs into one or two baskets and saying 'this is how you will do it if you want our support'.