Are you saying that more or bigger necessarily means better? There're way more McDonalds than Ruth's Chris Steakhouses. Does that mean they're better?
How many TKD schools are really martial arts schools and how many are martial arts style community centers where mom and dad and little billy can go play karate twice a week and laugh and play and hit each other with foam bats?
Does the fact that TKD is a national sport, with state backing, which led to it becoming an olympic sport, with state backing, play any roll at all in its proliferation and spread?
I've repeatedly pointed out that one of the main problems I'm seeing is this idea of appointing people to positions of authority based on nationality or ethnicity instead of skill and experience. Now, I'm asking you, ArchTKD, straight up, do you think that appointing someone to a position of authority over others based on their race is a good idea, or a bad idea?
For what it's worth, in my town there are four kenpo schools, all known for teaching real combat fighting. There are four TKD schools, three known for teaching real fighting, one is a big fancy clubhouse for kids of all ages. To be fair, the last is the most successful and most popular of all eight of those schools. It's got big tv's hanging from the ceiling and a whole wall of wavemaster bags. And when I was in that school I heard the instructor tell the students to "get out their clubs and practice their club work." And then I watched six year olds and forty year olds get out big foam blockers and chase each other around the room bonking each other on the head and blocking "club strikes" with their arms. Maybe that's TKD club work, and in all fairness I was only there for the one part so it's completely out of context, but that's not any kind of "club work" I'd want my students doing. Now, there are bad kenpo schools too, but I stand up and say, "that's bad kenpo."
Do you stand up and say "that's bad TKD?
The stats in your town are interesting. Four Kenpo schools to four Taekwondo schools is a good mix. I doubt that's a typical scenario in many major suburban areas. The scale I was talking about relates to problems. The more participants you have the higher the likelihood of infighting, politics, etc.
Of course I don't think appointments at organizational leadership levels shouldn't be based on race. Sweeping changes to a national organizations's leadership structure and leadership also shouldn't be driven my carte blanche racial motive, particularly if folks getting kicked out are American citizens.
On as side note I've noticed the more "American" some Taekwondo schools try to become, the more folks begin calling them McDojangs. How do you win?