Richmond High School

t was like any normal day at Richmond high school. Everyone was walking to or from class, getting in their lockers, or using the restroom. As everyone got to their class the bell rang and the teachers shut the doors. I was sitting in my first-hour waiting watching the clock tick slowly. I had already finished my work so I was just sitting quietly staring at the clock. The bell rang as we all went to our lockers, then our next class. In the second hour my phone went off while I was trying to listen

The Richmond High School, located in the poor area of Richmond city, held a graduation rate of 50% for their students. Out of that percentage, only 6% of those who graduate go to college. Conveniently located in western Contra Costa county, where every one out of three black men between the ages of 18-24 tends to get arrested, the youths of Richmond High are 80% more likely to end up in prison than college. Coach Carter is based on a true story of coach Ken Carter and the Richmond High basketball

doesn’t and what we can do to change this often by way of advocacy, actions, and campaigns, strive for social change (J. Poole, personal communication, September 13, 2017). Coach Carter is a sports drama based on a real life experience of a former Richmond High alumni and basketball coach, Ken Carter, who became known in 1999 for benching his entire basketball team, undefeated until that point for poor academic standing. It is though this film, but

took a group of boys that would have ended up in jail or dead and turned them into well rounded you men what went on to be valuable members of society. Richmond High School  had given up on trying to get their students to graduate from high school. As a result, of this, their graduation was really low. He took on the job as the Richmond High School basketball coach to try to make a difference. He introduced his value system of education over athletics. He focused on turning them into well-rounded

by a true story where Samuel L. Jackson plays the role of Ken Carter. Ken Carter attended Richmond High for his high school career where he set the high standards for basketball. After being considered one of the best athlete’s to attend the school he was asked to come back and coach the men’s basketball team. Richmond High is unlike most high schools due to the fact of the poverty surrounding the school. Carter accepted the coaching position so he could help the student athletes with their basketball

what we can do to change this, often by way of advocacy, actions, and campaigns, and striving for social change (J. Poole, personal communication, September 13, 2017). Coach Carter is a sports drama based on a real life experience of a former Richmond High alumni and basketball coach, Ken Carter, who became known in 1999 for benching his undefeated basketball team, due to poor academic standing (Watch Coach Carter, n.d.). It is through this film I will illustrate my understanding of structuralism

respect, is passionate and caring, builds a team, obtains expectations, and helps people grow. In the influential film Coach Carter, we are introduced to a character by the name of Ken Carter, who is offered a position as a basketball coach at Richmond High School, upon he decides to accept the offer to take on the mission of guiding, training, and teaching students on the team how to not only be great basketball players, but how to be great students as well. Throughout the film Ken Carter demonstrates

Although juvenile crimes happen all year around the rates are extremely high during school breaks. As Richmond states in the article, “high point of juvenile crime comes during the Easter, Christmas, spring, and summer vacation periods from school” (Richmond, 2001). These are times when students have more free time to rome the streets because they are not being supervised. When the students return to school after breaks there is a decrease in crimes being committed. A lot of parents have a hard time

of an organization, challenges of staffing in school districts can have a great impact on the overall success of the district, and student achievement. In chapter 8 of Daniel L. Duke’s The Challenges of School District Leadership, the challenges of staffing schools is discussed as well as considerations for school leaders to consider when going through the process of staffing. These challenges revolve around recruitment, retention, developing school leaders. This paper will discuss the complexities

American Ken Carter who agrees to take over the coaching job at his old school Richmond High. For me, this movie was indeed a motivational one as it intended to showcase different The story of Coach Carter specifically revolves around a low-income community in Richmond, California, of majority black racial background. Coach Ken Carter returns to his old high school as a basketball coach, where he himself was a star player on the Richmond Oilers basketball team. There are some heavy concepts presented in