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If rugby was just invented, I’m guessing no school board in the land would approve its introduction.

We bubble-wrap our kids when they ride bicycles or learn to skate. Why do we then throw teenagers on a playing field where they can tackle each other at full speed, with little protective equipment?

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Nobody played rugby when I was a kid, so I have no affinity for the sport, which does have the private-school whiff about it.

And it wouldn’t bother me if rugby disappeared from the high school roster. After all, we choose the sports that are appropriate in a publicly run system, which is why there are no fire-eating or knife-throwing leagues in the after-school gym. (Please tell me this is so?)

Banning high school rugby would be the easiest thing to do, and the last thing Rowan Stringer would want. The inquest into her death has heard how much she loved the sport because of its rough-and-tumble nature.