The Covenant School is a first-rate classical Christian school in Dallas. It’s in the news because its girls’ basketball team beat an opponent 100 to 0. This has gained Covenant nothing but criticism. The school has felt constrained to apologize and has even offered to forfeit the game.
I don’t agree! I suspect, based on its curriculum, that the school also has higher test scores, better writers, and better thinkers than other schools its students will be up against. Does it need to apologize for those kinds of excellence also?
I’m also impressed that a classical Christian school has such a good basketball team. After all, sports too developed out of the classical pursuit of excellence for its own sake, and Plato numbered gymnastics with the liberal arts.
UPDATE: OK, OK. I didn’t know the whole story, helpfully supplied by you commenters. I take it back.
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