SCISD to offer sumo wrestling club

By Tracy Farr
Editor, The Daily Spittoon

After the Christmas break, Stinky Creek High School will offer to its students and staff an after-school club that will promote tolerance of other cultures and traditions.  Called the Sumo Wrestling Club, members will meet on the first Monday of the month and study everything from foreign food to sports.

"I've thought for many years that we needed to learn more about our friends in other countries," Stinky Creek High School Principal Ed Terry said.  "I believe the Sumo Wrestling Club will be just the answer in turning our students into global thinkers."

According to Terry, the club's name comes from the ancient Japanese sport of Sumo Wrestling, a sport that is totally misunderstood by other cultures.

"Can you believe we actually have employees here at this school who think sumo wrestling is offensive, and that our students should never be allowed to view it?  Or to even see pictures of sumo wrestlers?" asked Terry.  "Instead of seeing sumo wrestling as a sport much older than football or basketball, the only thing they see is fat men wearing diapers.  Do we want our students to graduate from here with closed minds like that and a narrow vision of our world?  I think not!"

During the first meetings, club members will watch videos of sumo wrestling, eat sushi, and write to Japanese pen pals.  In future meetings, members will learn about other cultures by learning how to play cricket, cook spiders, make didgeridoos, camp out in yurts, make home-made tortillas, and eat haggis.

"We have a lot of neat things planned for this club," Terry said.  "And in the end, our students will be the better for it."

For more information about becoming a member of the Sumo Wrestling Club, call Mr. Terry at the school.