Education
In the huddle with the California School for the Deaf football team.
The Richmond High football team was getting slammed 42-0 in the last quarter of its game against Pinole Valley. The Varsity cheer team stood in position looking at the field, hands in the pockets of their matching jackets, trying to hold their stoic poses in the chilly air.
De Anza High School’s football team lost every game they played this season, but that didn’t stop them from giving their fans a gutsy effort on homecoming night.
Since its founding in 1989, the Robinson-Weeks-Robinson Foundation has helped more than 100 students in the West Contra Costa Unified School District attain higher education.
Without the eyes of news media fixed on them, district board members have displayed no urgency to protect Richmond’s largest school with fences and cameras.
Richmond’s YouthWORKS, a city-run youth-employment program, employed 705 local teens and young adults ages 16-21 last summer at 140 Bay Area public and private work sites. The civic youth jobs program is one the nation’s largest in proportion to the population of the city it serves.
After Friday’s rainy weather, only about ten parents came to watch the Richmond High football team’s last game this season at Pinole Valley High School.
Michael Williams was among them.
Musings on an example of what youth sports can mean to kids on the brink.
More than 300 people turned out at Richmond High School in a show of solidarity for the victim of an alleged rape on campus last week. Students, parents and teachers organized dozens of performances in an attempt to begin healing.