Our job is to teach them how to compete properly," says headmaster Olen Kalkus.
Exactly. Let's quit pretending that there aren't differences in all kinds of abilities.
Harvard doesn't choose C students and Ohio State doesn't draft intra-mural quarterbacks. (We could try to force them to do so, of course, in the name of 'inclusiveness.")
It's my job to teach my kid that life has its victories and its defeats, and that we need to learn how to live with both. While the school's primary job is education, it's the school's secondary job to reinforce such common sense parental guidance.....even if it means keeping their nose out of it.
I was cut during tryouts for our little league ball team two years in a row before I made the team. If you were not good enough you sat in the bleachers and worked on your game until next year. My dad's involvement was to get me to join the little league football team in the fall so I could smack the crap out of the same baseball kids who were "better" than me. It felt good and kept me in the upper tiers of the pecking order. Self esteem counseling consisted of a good forearm block to the chops.