Posted on 01/31/2005 7:04:05 PM PST by churchillbuff
This is why Sacramento needs a Midnight Basketball program.
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Thanks to Guliani, New York City is probably safer per capita than some small Red State towns.
Years ago I sat on my local school board (in WA state). We were searching for a new superintendent and ended up hiring a man, who while he was the football coach, canceled the remaining season when his players broke their contract. In their contract they not only agreed to not drinking alcohol, but to not be at parties where alcohol was being consumed by minors.
His players were busted at a party one weekend and the season was canceled the following week. We liked that idea and that was one of the reasons we hired him.
Was the movie any good?
I thought the movie was good with a few exceptions. I really liked the message. I always felt as a board member that we should expect more than "D" level work from our athletes. Sooooo that was exciting to see in a movie. I will say I left having lots of questions however. Unfortunately they'll never get answered.
"They have security guards at the movie theatre!?"
Here in Medford, Oregon, the local Tinseltown Theater has ARMED security guards!
Why, I have no idea...
Ed
Bench clearing brawls in movie houses. Audience participation! Could this be the new Rocky Horror?
Bring rocks in your pocket!
My son took a group of friends (and his parents) to see this movie for his birthday. There was lots of "exhuberance" from the audience. The movie was so-so and predictable. My son already knows the drill-a tutor if grades seem marginal, withhold sports participation if more study time is needed. I thought that was a known strategy and was shocked that a movie could be made about it. I thought it made Black parents look dumb, look like they just want to go to sporting events and keep ambition at bay by playing victim.(like typical DUers)
You usually get to school about 30-40 minutes before classes start. He would have the kids playing basketball in the gym before the first bell. In the afternoons, he started an intramarial program of what was in season - basketball, horseshoes, volleyball, etc. Kids could sign up as various teams, from the different grades, and play each other after school. He had a two-lose bracket system. You lost your first game, you got knocked down into the losers bracket. The next game you lost, you were knocked out. You had a champion of the winners bracket and one for the losers bracket. At the end, the two champions played each other in front of the whole school in the afternoon - as an assembly.
Racial tensions went down, fights went down. He figured, get these kids worked up they would be too tired to fight. Also, get them working together in teams and once they get to know each other, tensions would ease. He was right.
They should make a movie about him.
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