'For a lot of these kids, football is it,' said Forest Hill coach Curtis Carter. “And I'm worried about these kids now, I am. Without this season, the chances for most of these seniors getting scholarships, I'd say it's slim to none.”
, higher than Mississippi’s average of 20 percent — the highest of any state in the country. And many of Jackson’s public schools reflect these challenges.
“We’re part of a big metropolitan area, and the kids in Madison, the kids in Rankin County, in all honesty, they already have better opportunities than we do,” Jaiden Vaughn, a senior at Callaway, said. “They’re probably playing football just to have fun. Most of us are playing football to get somewhere for real. But that’s not going to matter if a coach is watching them play.”
Jackson Public School district officials say they fought to keep the season. But the sheer size of the district — the second-biggest in the state — especially when compared to its limited resources, made it impossible to do so safely. In 2018, a state-commissioned report determined that 63 percent of the structures in the school district were 40 to 60 years old.Although it's the capital of Mississippi, Jackson, like the state, is poor.
“Race is such a predictor of what’s called social determinants, you know? It predicts education, it predicts income, and in this society, it’s not easy to disconnect race from these economic markers because it predicts so many things,” Mena said. “We’re making this decision for our community,” Jones said. “Is it unfair? Yes. But what hasn’t been unfair about this virus and who it’s hurting?”The same day that Winn found out that football had been canceled, he and a teammate reached out to a coach in the Hinds County School District to see about transferring. Every year hundreds of high school athletes move for better recruiting visibility, sometimes even moving out of state. It’s even earned a nickname: “the transfer merry-go-round.
"Most days I am pretty tired. My mom has to wake me up for school because if not, I oversleep," Ontario Winn said after the workout.Jackson Public Schools was struggling to make it up to the players. In late August, they announced that they would allow “workouts” in small groups and encouraged more one-on-one skills training with coaches.
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