LaMarr Woodley Opening K-8 School in Saginaw
Following in Jalen Rose's footsteps, LaMarr Woodley is opening a tuition-free K-8 charter school in his hometown of Saginaw this fall called the Woodley Leadership Academy.
LaMarr has always given back to the community, and now he's taking it a huge step further. It's always nice when athletes write checks for good things, but starting a school takes an extra level of commitment. The Woodley Leadership Academy will focus on "identifying and nurturing the leadership potential of its students."
Way to go, LaMarr. Leaders and best.
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IIRC, the back had the names of all of the opposing teams' quarterbacks that year. He actually succeeded on knocking a few guys out of games - PSU comes to mind.
April 23rd, 2018 at 10:22 AM ^
Very cool indeed, and reading about some of the things that are going to be core to the school, it sounds like it will be an awesome place.
The EMU Charter Schools Office is behind some of the more interesting schools in the Detroit area really - Global Tech in Ypsilanti, the Detroit Public Safety Academy and several others. They are all pretty small but have some intriguing missions and visions.
April 23rd, 2018 at 10:52 AM ^
Welcome Home.
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This is great news. Jalen is getting fantastic results in training young men and women to be strong, dedicated, and independent. I hoe Woodley gets the same if not better results. This is badly needed since education standards have gone nowhere but down since the 1970s and probably earlier.
Yes! Preach! The last time we had good education standards was in the 1970s! . . . Probably earlier even!
April 23rd, 2018 at 12:19 PM ^
Surprised no one has said this yet, but I'm proud to be the first: "Guns don't kill people. LaMarr Woodley kills people."
In all seriousness though, this is awesome. A great football player and a better man.
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April 23rd, 2018 at 12:51 PM ^
Uber-talended Saginaw footballers from a similar vintage (early 2000s grads):
MSU -- Charles Rogers
Michigan -- LaMarr Woodley
Meaured in their respective post-football contributions to society, "leader and best" really starts to stand out.
I know Charles had a rough go of it growing up, but LaMarr wasn't exactly on easy street. He came out of Michigan as somebody whose worldview had been very positively impacted by his collegiate environment.
also, i raced against him in the 200 once in high school and i’ve never felt so demoralized before or
since. he was bigger, stronger and almost a full 2 seconds faster than me and the rest of the field. dude was a freak athlete with a 2 cent head
Bunch of panty waists.
April 24th, 2018 at 12:15 PM ^
Carry on.
The world is full of a bunch of bitches these days. People cant handle the image of a gun so they freak out and have little hissy fits about it. The dad holding a gun by his daughters date has been around for a long time but now it causes people to need a damn safe space.
Yes! Finally a real man to speak truth to the face of falsehood!
I DISAGREE with you sir! And you are a bad person! And I also disagree with you, and you, and you, and you are all BAD people! You deserve ridicule!
April 23rd, 2018 at 10:25 PM ^
Meh..
Oh, not at all. Let's look at it this way, if people would like an opinion on it...
1) It will begin with a debate on the overall merits of the joke, taking into account the admittedly overplayed "father-daughter" trope in Western humor and the societal problems of violence in general.....so on and so forth. In other words, whether or not you found it funny, it is ultimately a debate which will go nowhere and do nothing to advance dialogue.
2) Inevitably, someone will make a remark about gun control and the Second Amendment, and whatever your personal take on the issue, there's no way it will end well on this blog. My Twitter and the Mod Sticky will come alive with links to the worst of the hot takes in all major schools of thought on this and the thread would go anyway.
If that's what you want on MGoBlog, that's weird.
What? You weren't worried about the inevitable comments about how pretty his daughter is?