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...last person who would wish that fate on Santee was Hamilton. He recalled Santee's inspired charge at the National Championships and hoped for a repeat: "I want David to be at his best. It would be an empty title if everybody didn't skate his best...
...extent of the practice is difficult to judge, since school systems do not maintain separate records for students who repeat a grade voluntarily and those who repeat for academic reasons. But officials in Texas, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Georgia and Louisiana admit the practice has become routine at some schools. In Georgia, the number of holdbacks has become so widespread that the state legislature ordered an investigation into the issue. Says Bill Fordham, executive director of the Georgia High School Athletic Association: "More and more schools are doing it because it's legal. The end will come when the taxpayers...
...absence of legislative action, however, parents may request that their sons repeat a grade, and school officials are bound to comply with their wishes. Often following the lead of high school coaches who have held their own sons back, parents insist that their young footballers need an extra year of "maturity" before entering high school. Douglas Griffin, superintendent of schools in Murray County, Ga., recalls, "Our high school basketball coach held his son back in the eighth grade, and he ended up getting a college scholarship. After that, it kind of snowballed." Adds Griffin, who held his own football-playing...
...parents buy it. The kids who are good enough to make it on talent, the ones you read about in the sports pages, are never held back. It's the marginal athletes who do it, hoping that something magical will happen. But having a kid repeat a year just feeds the pipe dream...
...fifth day, Lew is would repeat the process, this time by writing up a new ticket for a larger amount of money. He would then cover his heist of five days earlier by forwarding the credit slip from the new ticket, along with the debit slip from the old ticket, to the Santa Monica branch, causing the MAPS account in that branch to appear to be not just in balance, but flush with new funds. These too could then be drawn down and go unnoticed for five days...