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stork daddy
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so this kid i coached got kicked off the team and out of his school for selling knives. and i tried to talk to the dean (who i feel has sold out on the sensibility he once had when he was just a teacher and i knew him) and tell him that he's basically a good kid, and that this isn't going to correct his path, but the dean had to follow protocol. as long as it's always someone else's columbine, it's okay. and i don't buy that whole, by setting an example, you correct more kids than by saving this one, because this kid disappeared quietly, nobody cared the next day. which is what is saddest. and i've seen with my own eyes suburbanite kids get away with murder, but some inner city kid is easy to weed out from your prep school i suppose. so his dad scraped together enough funds to pay for another private school, but this kid dropped out of there after doing horribly and now has run away. i know primary blame has to go to the kid, because well, he's a young man, and regardless of what you think of individual responsibility, it's how civilizations have always been ran. but still, someone should see that they aren't doing what's right for the kid or society at large. because now he's going to be one of the people those very people running that school complain about bringing the economy down or committing crime. and since then, he's been hanging out and blazing and drinking and looking for pussy. which his dad said he did at the same age, so he can't blame him. but his dad is also rightfully upset that he paid all this money, and now his son is going to get maybe a g.e.d and work at footlocker. what makes this another level of sad is that this kid could've with some training wrestled in college and then taken that talent who knows where else? but now he's hanging out with people into that whole stupid norteno and sueno shit, and maybe that is his choice, but i just want him to know all of the consequences before he makes it. i think he'd be just as happy having a lot of money and a "regular" life. but i have so much trouble giving advice because i don't know what the good life is myself. and his dad said he doesn't know how he could take him back now that he's wronged me, but then also said, "it's hard." I think i'm going to call the kid i coached, and tell him to call his dad, or at least come in and train with me a bit, or community college or something so he doesn't die over whether or not he was north or south of some street - unless of course that's what he wants to do.
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