Must be the school milk

Polo is a hard, rough sport played by adults. But nobody told Martine….

Martine is 13 years old and gets stuck in with rest of them during a game of polo. It may be something they put in the school milk in Argentina, but the fact that both his parents are polo players may have something to do with it. He may not have been born on a horse, but was possibly conceived on one and certainly grew up on one.

He is also a bit of a whizz on the guitar and drums; maybe that’s thanks to the school milk.

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2010-01-04 | genuinej says

Do they have, or did they ever have, school milk in Argentina? I think we should be told.

2010-01-05 | Spike says

Yes:

“iii) National Approaches to Milk in Schools In many peoples’ minds, school milk is synonymous with milk being subsidised, or even given free. The FAO survey shows that in the majority of countries this is the case.4 However, within the three categories of milk distribution – free, subsidised and full-cost - the scope and operation of school milk systems is extremely varied. Taking, for example, the countries where milk is given free; in some countries – Argentina, Moldova and South Africa – this involves programmes which are limited in size and concentrate on a specific group in the population – such as children from low-income families. In other countries where milk is given free – Finland, Portugal, Sweden and Thailand – such programmes cover a high proportion of the school population: in the case of Finland and Sweden, free milk is provided for children until they complete secondary schooling.”

2010-01-05 | Billy says

One can therfore reasonably draw the conclusion that Martine is unlikely to have ever benefited from the free milk scheme .. polo horse owning families being almost certainty excluded from the category of “low earning families”, membership of which is required in order to benefit from State sponsored largesse …