Dumont s'inspire de Gordon Brown

Avant les déclarations de Dumont ce matin sur le besoin de ramener les équipes sportives et la discipline à l'école afin de combattre la délinquance, le premier ministre du Royaume-Uni, Gordon Brown, proposait de réinstaurer la compétitivité via les sports à l'école. Ses arguments sont euh.... faibles ? (lire crétins)

"We want to encourage competitive sports in schools, not the 'medals for all' culture we have seen in previous years," he said. "It was wrong because it doesn't work. In sport you get better by challenging yourself against other people. A lot of sports are team games where people have to work together but they play against other teams."

Brown said the government had now begun to "correct the tragic mistake of reducing the competitive element in school sports".

By 2012 there will be a generation of children inspired by our heroes in Beijing. We've now got 19 gold medals, this is a new opportunity to follow in their footsteps," Brown said. The proposal would "contribute towards the legacy" of the London Olympics.

Plans are also under way for a new website for school sports where teams will be able to compare their performance in nationwide league tables.

Defending the decision to include contact sports such as boxing and martial arts in the list of activities that will be available to children, Brown said: "I have met quite a lot of amateur boxers. At one of the clubs I said to one of the young guys there who I'd been told had been in some trouble in the past: 'Tell me, what's the most important thing you have learned here'. His answer was 'discipline'."

Ah... moi qui croyait qu'il fallait plus de coopération, moins de compétition.

Le modèle capitaliste appliqué aux activités sportives des élèves. Ça donne quoi, encore ? Peut-être que Brown devrait lire la recherche de Roché, lui aussi.