Eh, there's a certain logic to saying 'boys are going to beat each other. Supervise it and let them vent it in a controlled manner and it's better for all'. We

Eh, there's a certain logic to saying 'boys are going to beat each other. Supervise it and let them vent it in a controlled manner and it's better for all'. We didn't have boxing, but teachers realised pretty early on that boys were going to play tackle rugby at lunch time, since from about grade 6 onwards it was offered as an extracurricular sport. The idea was that the kids and teachers reached an agreement that they'd let us play it if a teacher (usally one of the coaches of the school teams) was present to referee it and make sure we did it safely. It was a pretty good, common-sense solution to something that was going to happen anyway, so they instead went with risk-minimisation.