Kidding. We were planning on doing that. And we saved their teacher and the black Student Union at garfield now is just won the citys human rights award for leading a march first marching to the precinct demanding that black lives matter and then a walk out the day after there was no indictment of Darren Wilson and theyre becoming leaders not just at the school but for the entire city in defining what black lives matter means. Think its all part of this growing struggle. I just want to say one last thing about the transformative nature of these struggles. I want to just end by reading a quick passage if i can. Theres a chapter in here you should not miss which is by a young woman named amber kudlow who went to a school here in new york state. She was the schools valedictorian and does she have the best grades in the highest test scores she was told by the principal she had to give the graduation speech for the school school. She said absolutely not, i dont have anything to say. Im not
But we certainly have heard from coaches, you know, espn, outside the lines, and locally we have heard from some coaches the last report they didnt know necessarily about what was happening behind the scenes in the academic support units, but we reported to them on a weekly basis from the academics unit for studentathletes. They had all the records. They helped with clearing athletes for tournaments like right now in march madness, before you go, to the tournament, you have to certify your students all over again. So youre constantly when youre in an academic support unit in athletics youre constantly looking at transcripts and letting the coach notes who is eligible, who is not who is sitting on the fence, where were Going Forward with all of that. Yes. Yes. Id like to thank you as well. Thank you. And i was wondering if you talked about Burgess Mcswain and wayne walden in their book and theyre involvement. We do. You hate to speak ill of the dead but but we do. Im sure when im dead l
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