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“If your child comes home and says, ‘I want to play basketball,’ what’s your response?” he added. “No way! You have to stay in school and become a doctor! I don’t want anything that will derail you from that goal.”
In recent days, they said, one of the best shooters on the boys’ team said he wouldn’t be able to continue playing regularly because his parents — concerned that some of his grades had dropped below 95 — had enrolled him in an SAT preparation course.
According to National Collegiate Athletic Association data from 2002, the most recent available, fewer than 1 percent of all Asian/Pacific Islander students participated in their college’s sports programs, compared with about 9 percent of all black students, 3.4 percent of whites and 1.9 percent of Hispanics. [Link]
