In Disney’s upcoming high-school sports drama, McFarland, USA (which opens on Feb. 20), Kevin Costner plays real-life cross-country running coach Jim White, who in 1987 made state champions out of a team of mostly poor Latino students who spent most of their extracurricular hours toiling with their families, picking fruit for a pittance.
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Kstar
Children should still feel that everything is possible. If the school system or society has taken that from them, then that is the saddest testament to our failure in this country of opportunity.
