Agree with Kara and Eloise. I was quite a chubber at school and enforced sport never seemed to do anything except damage my dignity and make me comfort-eat even more.
I also resented the fact that those good at sport were prized more highly than those good at music, or other things.
Eloise - I agree with your comment 'for the school'. At the end of the day (sorry) you should be doing things for your friends rather than some quasi patriotic blast that you know means squat. Perhaps then people would have stopped bullying others, having realised that their bullying would infact have a return impact on themselves.
My sis, who is a sports nut, lost a dangerous amount of weight when she first started at CH because she was simply not getting enough calories. This was a problem in my time when the Cranleigh rugger teams were noticeably bigger and stronger than ours. In my opinion, I think its scandalous that she feels forced to cook for herself or order in extra food. CH's move to open a paying pizza parlour should be met with the same line - "...it should be free because its
for the school..." In this case, it literally would be.
I used to run the steeplechase in a decent time and even ran with Stindt (& others) on voluntary early morning runs. You can imagine how angry I was to be hounded by my sneering housecapt whilst on medical pass about taking part in a steeplechase that year and I was so scared that I ran anyway. In deference to that memory, I made no attempt to take part on my Grecians and even plotted sucessfully with our Juniors to, well, shall we say stack the results in their favour that year?
CH hasn't put me off sport per se. It was the degrading attitude of the staff I disliked and the emphasis on sport before anything else.
Happy.
