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It amazes me that people can be sometime so naïve that they speak and lead others to form their opinions. One of the kids that transferred in comes from a single parent home where the mom actually has a very good job as a professors at one the state Universities. The kid has above a 3.0 GPA takes advanced placement and accelerated class work and has been playing basketball since he a young kid. The mother is good friends with a resident of Hazard. When her son got jumped at one the local gyms after playing pick up bball and his sister an elite high school basketball was diagnosed with leukemia during BB playoff of her junior year and immediately began intense chemotherapy. In an effort to keep him focused on school and basketball, and not be sucked into a community or circumstances that angered him and made question the will of God. His transfer allowed his mother to focus on the daughter who is now a high school senior fighting a disease that striped her of muscle mass not only fight cancer but working to build herself to play her last year of high school basketball. All of this to say stop being so critical every black kid does not come from a poverty stricken home some are just trying to continue a path that God established before life. This is my kid and my desire as a mother is to help him successfully obtain his goals and dreams without having to worry about issue designed for adults. In the end these are KIDS for whatever reason they are trying to improve the or better their situations. So as you pass judgment wherever in KY, CA, TX , NC, MS or wherever we should praise the kids and parents for trying to do what we feel is best for our kids. I truly believe if I allowed my child to stay he would end up in jail. The pain from watch his sister and the envy for his success in school and basketball was to much of a distractions for this young black male with the capabilities of being a successful black male. I hope all the kids at all schools in whatever activity they participate in tennis, gymnastics , track, cheerleading, dance or the big two football or basketball etc. accomplish their goal and dreams. And if Coach Rhodes and if staff at Cordia High School can help these kids get the best for their lives GOOD LUCK and the same to all the other school with similar goal. These activities are for the KIDS let them play and live.