I don’t rant much, but this story really gets to me. What are these teachers thinking? Don’t they realise that they world is a competitive place?! Hiding a child from it won’t make them better at coping with it later in life either.

As for failure… Everyone fails at something and most of us fail at something regularly. School sports day is a good place to learn to accept defeat gracefully and understand that competing and doing your best is important. How can we instill the drive to win if we don’t accept that to win, someone else has to lose?

Grrr…