“It really hypes us up, because we always get these compliments from our classmates and teachers. Now each game day, his players are outfitted in clothes they say show everyone they’re all about business. “It just made me feel overwhelmed with joy knowing that someone’s out there making a difference for our young generation,” said Milton. It took them just a day to buy 24 pairs of khakis for Coach Milton’s team. “I think it’s so important for these kids to realize how many people there are who care about them that are invested in them succeeding,” said Meridith Hall. It turns out, they had a budget in place for moments just like this one. People fight to keep BNSF Railway logistics center out of their small Grayson County city It took a few calls, but eventually he ended up in touch with Meridith Hall, the new community kids director at Valley Creek Church’s Next Step Center. “When you’ve got stories like that that pull on your heartstrings involving children you try to do everything possible to try to make that happen for them,” said Guy.
Officer Guy, who’s only been at the school since October, says helping kids like those on the basketball team are what drew him to his job in the first place. “He wanted them to dress for success, be professionals, be a positive mentor to their peers,” said School Resource Officer JD Guy.
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This is basically setting the foundation for you in the long run,” said Tedric Milton.īut when it didn’t immediately catch on, Milton realized some of his players didn’t own the professional dress he was asking for and some didn’t have the means to run out and by it. That’s why he surprised the guys in his first season by asking them to dress up on game days, wearing khakis and a nice shirt instead of the sweats or shorts most usually choose. All Rights Reserved.At Durham Middle School in Lewisville ISD, basketball coach Tedric Milton works to teach his players about more than just life on the court. She said he was hired despite those incidents because they weren't recent and he provided "thorough explanations for both." Permetti said the district knew he had been involved in two previous assaults. Permetti said Berry's application to the district, submitted in June, showed that he spent the 2010-2011 school year coaching an unspecified club team after previously working as a public high school teacher and coach in La Joya, Mission and McAllen.īerry received "glowing references" from his previous employers, she said. The affidavit also says Berry has a criminal history with "several assaultive incidents." The student's father told police that Berry, who once coached high school basketball in the Rio Grande Valley, recruited young basketball players from Mexico to the U.S. Police were alerted when Berry tried to file a criminal mischief charge against the student for pouring popcorn all over the coach's apartment, according to the affidavit. The charge is a second-degree felony and carries a sentence of two to 20 years in prison. 1 that specifically makes forced labor prosecutable as human trafficking. Police spokesman Kevin Deaver said Berry was charged under a state law that went into effect Sept. The student has since withdrawn from school, she said. Permetti said Berry was listed as the student's legal guardian when the student enrolled in August. He's now on unpaid leave, and the district is in the process of terminating him, she said. 28, Lewisville school district spokeswoman Karen Permetti said. Police say the student's parents paid Berry $300 a month for their son to live with him, attend Lewisville High School and play basketball there.īerry, 46, had been working as a teacher and coach at the school for about a month when he was arrested on Sept. Lewisville police claim the coach, Theodore Berry, repeatedly threatened the 16-year-old student because the student wouldn't sell gourmet popcorn to help fund a club team operated by the coach. LEWISVILLE (AP) - An assistant basketball coach at Lewisville High School has been charged with human trafficking for allegedly forcing a student from Mexico to work against his will while living with him, police said Friday.
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