Was Coach Carter's Decision To Do A Lockout A Good Idea?

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Was Coach Carter's decision to do a lockout a good idea? To me the answer to to the question is yes. Canceling games and practices was a good idea because if the players were failing at their work they shouldn’t do basketball. The players were skipping lessons and not completing the assignments, but then they would continue to participate in basketball. That is why the most of the trouble they had was from the classrooms. Coach Carter saw throughout Richmond street players who got left behind in life by not making something out of themselves. Coach Carter did not want that the happen to his basketball players. Going to the library instead of the gym at first didn’t sound like a good idea to the basketball players and community, but when

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