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To: MrLucky who wrote (14988)	3/24/2006 1:51:06 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541299

I see. So no mediocre players on the junior varsity teams? Goodness. You do realize mediocre means "average"- right? "Basketball is basketball once you get to the high school level. The mediocre do not make the team. Period" I wouldn't have expected a statement like that from you. Not only are there mediocre players, there are whole schools that are mediocre, and some that just stink- they're bad- worse than mediocre- if you've followed basketball at the high school level I would think you would know that. How else to explain the school that is ALWAYS in last place? Have you actually ever seen high school basketball? I'm serious.

To: MrLucky who wrote (14988)	3/24/2006 2:50:54 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541299

Escalante was "not" an anomaly. There are many like him out there. This is a very easy thing to say but difficult to demonstrate. But there are some. But only if the conditions encourage such. I visited some "inner city schools" each year over the past fifteen years with groups of college level first year students, usually sixty to a group, to see the better adventuresome high schools in NYC. And we saw a few of the less adventuresome as well. This was the most famous of the more adventuresome schools. insideschools.org. Central Park East. When conditions are right, as in the above, those conditions recruit the best teachers who give amazing effort. But it takes money, just gobs of money, to do these kinds of things on a large scale. And one of the many social institutions we fund at only the most minimal levels is "inner city" public education. One of the great policy crimes of the last twenty five years.