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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Running Club is for lower-schoolers (4-8 grades) who do something wrong, like unscrew the cap of the salt-shaker at the lunch table just before a teacher uses the salt-shaker. The club is by invitation only, and one goes for a run around the cathedral close after school with the head of the lower school. [/quote]

What??  Is this for real?[/quote]
It is a disciplinary thing--kind of like running laps for messing around at a sports practice.  Friday afternoon after school for Lower Schoolers (4-8)  It's about a mile and they run pretty slow!  I think it's more an issue of having to face up "man to man" to the Lower School Head to atone for the misdeeds, then get in a little honest sweat.  A rather unique twist on "getting sent to the principal's office.".   [/quote]

When my son first was "invited" to Running Club, it was probably the first time I truly understood that we were in an independent school setting.  This would never take place in a public school.  I love the notion.  My son, a lower school boy, actually enjoyed it.  Well enjoyed the minor celebrityhood this bestowed upon him among his friends, enjoyed complaining about it to anyone who would listen, and enjoyed the time with the lower shool head.  Incidentally, the infraction that led to the invitation has not occurred since (that was 2 years ago).  [/quote]

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