For Miami-Dade high school athletes, a strong year
Miami-Dade County athletes spent most of the 2007-2008 high school year in the national spotlight.
Northwestern won a mythical national championship, and, along with Booker T. Washington, showed the country how good Dade football is with nationally televised victories in Texas and South Carolina.
The Varela boys’ soccer team secured another national championship in the winter, and South Dade’s wrestling team made its own appearance on ESPN after ”beating the streak” at Brandon High.
The county amassed a total of 18 team state championships, numerous individual champions and many unforgettable moments. Here’s a dozen of the best:
1. NORTHWESTERN GOES NATIONAL: Football experts debated whether this year’s Northwestern team is the greatest of all time. The only argument among its fans is which was the most lasting image of a memorable season.
Senior quarterback and Mr. Florida Football winner Jacory Harris and All-State defensive end Marcus Forston became acting coaches in the summer until coach Billy Rolle was hired. There was the Bulls successful trip — on and off the field — to Texas where they beat then-No. 1 Southlake Carroll in a game that pit the top two teams in the nation.
Then there was the great 99-yard drive with less than two minutes left in the fourth quarter to beat Deerfield Beach that had the now-demolished Orange Bowl buzzing like the days of old.
And it ended at the Florida Citrus Bowl with the Bulls routing Orlando Boone 41-0 in the largest blowout in state championship game history that set the longest winning streak in county history at 30 games.
2. BIG YEAR FOR BOOKER T.: After four years of heartbreak, Booker T. finally beat Seffner Armwood and won that elusive Class 4A state football championship. They took it a step further and earned a No. 4 national ranking after routing Summerville in South Carolina in a live telecast on ESPN.
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So? Some parents are really crazy about their kids doing well in sports.
The scary thing is that that just might be a reasonable explanation.
the ’system’ in ALL it’s glory. now include the teachers who plain don’t give a shit, or know much about what they teach, and you’ve got MOST public school teachers.
Their sales forecast continues to point upward.
Seriously. I don’t see how this would work.But then, I don’t really see how anybody could survive in today’s society whilst being illiterate.
If you read the article linked to within the submission it says the following:”For 17 years Corcoran taught high school for the Oceanside School District. Relying on teacher’s assistants for help and oral lesson plans, he said he did a great job at teaching his students.”What I did was I created an oral and visual environment. There wasn’t the written word in there. I always had two or three teacher’s assistants in each class to do board work or read the bulletin,” said Corcoran.”
You have to understand, the bureaucracy is more important than excercising common sense. By blindly following rules, ANY IDIOT can do any job - perhaps not well, but - passably.If we go and start actually allowing THINKING then we would have to start hiring people in the administration that could THINK.There aren’t enough of those available, so the bureaucracy must be followed blindly so as to keep it intact.
How else could Bush have been elected?
He must have been one lazy teacher to fool people for 17 years. In my experience, a large part of teaching generally involves reading a sizeable body of material to students, and writing notes on the board.I wonder how he graded assignments…
Pedofiles, disgusting.
Drug companies all hope they can come up with a product as popular and iconic as Viagra, but they also know how hard it is to achieve.
Oh, Florida. Is there no depth to which you won’t sink?
As long as they don’t peak too soon, that would be a real come down.