I’d like to see an educational institution I’ll call “Manup.” It would teach kids Judo, hiking, camping, hunting and above all make them conscious of liberal attempts to train their independence and aggression out of them. (Oh, they’d play dodge ball, football,base ball and (here’s the horrifying part) KEEP SCORE!)
One of our sons worked as a camp counselor this past summer. They had extreme sports camps among others. My son was merciless in playing extreme dodgeball with those children. We had friends whose sons attended the extreme camps. They are not raising little wusses and neither are we.
Our oldest son used to play wall ball in middle school. He threw around 85+ mph in those years. He and another friend would end up playing alone because they threw so hard. One of the school counselors brought them a softer ball so they wouldn’t fatally hurt anyone.
Tell you what - if someone were to put a business plan together for a camp like that (and get a smart lawyer to allow them to run it without getting sued every time some kid got a hangnail) - I’ll bet they’d have more business than they could handle.
You don’t need a camp to do that. You just need parents. Lots of kids do have such parents, unfortunately their numbers are small.
Judo is excellent defense against bullies.