Schoolboy error of bigger is better culture

When The Times broke the story last week that, in the first known case
of multiple
doping in schools in the United Kingdom, three schoolboy rugby players
had been banned for possession of testosterone, the shock-horror social
media response was predictable: Really? Surely not? A 16-year-old? Whatever
is the world coming to?

When a similar case made headlines in South Africa two months ago, the
response was totally different.

Two boys at Dr EG Jansen High School outside
Johannesburg, aged 17 and 16, were found in possession of steroids, the
principal called in the police and one of…