Level Quidditch fields

[davewitley]

Amanda wrote on the main list, about inequitable Quidditch:

> The difference in brooms follows the style of school 
administration. It tends to be rather "hands off," allowing students 
to learn not only their lessons, but some life lessons as well--like 
life isn't always fair. Other students may have better brooms. People 
in authority may not be open-minded or even-handed. You won't always 
get heard. Etc. [I personally feel that this is a better approach 
than one finds in many American schools, where we lead students to 
believe that the world is fair and you are owed a level playing 
field; it ain't the case, and it's unfair to expect kids to learn it 
when they hit college, after having been kid-gloved for twelve years.]

OTOH, we spend quite a bit of effort (on both sides of the Atlantic) 
trying to legislate a level playing field for *adults*, presumably on 
the ground that it is owed to them.  We may fail to provide it fully 
in adult life - but if schools are not seen to be trying to provide 
it, that would seem to be a contradiction.

Is fairness owed to others?

David