That’s exactly what happened Monday, when St. George’s (R.I.) School canceled a game on Friday against fellow Independent School League member Lawrence Academy (Mass.), citing a concern over the disparity in the size of the two schools’ players. St. George’s is the first team to officially pull out of a game against Lawrence Academy (Mass.), one of two programs that has been completely dominant against ISL foes in recent years.
“This is strictly a safety issue,” St. George’s headmaster Eric Peterson told the Boston Globe. “We are trying to keep our kids reasonably safe in a game that can be terribly exciting but has risks.”
Safety? (voice gets more patronizing)–safety?? If team sports are a metaphor for life, instilling values and teaching character than what this teaches is, when the obstacle is too big, the opponent too strong—give up. Yes, future leaders of America, just give up. Once in middle school we lost a football game 88-6. Sure it scarred the shit out of me, emotionally crippled me, and yeah, I’m in capable of reciprocating love. But, it also taught me to hate to lose.
And that is life’s most important lesson.
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