welcome to education in our community this show is about lifelong learning mentoring and teaching our lifelong teaching mentoring and mentoring and all of those things that helped to develop the character of individuals and young people and adults our topic is east bay warriors came from being a part of the oakland greater oakland area we originally started as the oakland warriors but we started incorporating other kids from other parts of the bay so you were primarily starting in the oakland yes the urban area and expanded to what other cities andrew heyward double and places of that nature i c and our special guest is mr frederick pugh he is the co founder and president how does the name pop warner come into the title what are the national youth football and scholastic organization and so they started in one thousand twenty nine from that mistaken and has been around for generations and it or again by yourself give the kids a sense of purpose of knowing participating you football and cheer but also one of the branches that gives them a school assoc branch as well so it gives them a foundation to be able to utilize their skills and to be comparative in football and sure but also maintain their academic standard as well so have you found that that makes a difference tying in the academics with this yes it does for one reason and it makes a really  because their student athletes you know it pertains and gives him the ability when they go on ties school that they've already been experiencing exposed to being able to participate at the football and cheer level while maintaining their academic standards so then the cheer the cheerleaders and so forth that how does that tie in that tie is date for additional each year for the normal their local football team but they also have their separate branch where they can go to the national level qualify for the local championships as well as a regional a of new york and they started they wanted to do something for the local youth at that time so they started back in new york and in his breast out all across the country over the years did you ever hear how they played they were motivated to do it here in oakland bay area well one of things that was motivated us to start a part of it was that part one it was our already in existence and it was already youth playing football and one of the things that i want to do when we started the warriors was to bring the academic component along with the traditional you football best outside of the school if you're not part of the school you traditionally just play your sports should you two or three hours a day and then you go home and  we'll see you again at practice well one of the things that happened to me was that when my kids play you sports no one ever thought about are asked them about their grades so by the time reese high school my son's team at that point he had a lot of his friends were were not playing anymore and they weren't playing because they just didn't have the skill set to do sports and do the academic component so one of things is that i decided to do was once i started east bay warriors was supporting an academic component so as young as a kindergartens we want them to realize as so as tracking their grades might maintain their grades monitoring their grades so as they go through the ranks and ages and the grades of sport that they today produce a letter from the school this and there they are academically sound to participate in our afterschool program it would probably be kind of disappointing if they would write you a letter that said they're not qualified to be in your cheerleading helping with the pairs to monitor their grades and their academic success and say get them a sense of purpose to build up to a level so we don't turn away we do research they're not academically qualified but then what we do is we put them  monitor and help them set up saabs and help them maintain and build up on their academic standards than have you ever had in the past youth that didn't qualify did the progress never occurred to what you wanted oh yes we get that every we get that also is that ok yes and what we do then is we recommend them to other agencies because again we're all volunteer group and our primary objective is for the youth in to maintain their football and cheer so when we do have kids that just do not qualify or for whatever reason can't maintain within the firm out other sources that we may have in the community so it sounds like you were the one that made it happen the academic component to oh yes that was wonderful that you did that a great contribution do you have to be experienced and put in football  cheerleading to participate no we accept any everyone there's no trial circuits one of the unique things about our program is we offer at every age level we offer a multiple team so we have experienced kids play on experience teams and then we have some non experience they have not had the traditional experience of football or sharing so we put them on what we call a team to help build their self confidence and build up their skill level before  some of those experienced teams if someone watching the show if they wish to have their children participate or if the child wants to can they get in touch with you yes they can contact us at our on our website  dot org and or they can call us at five one zero eight six nine four seven six zero ok let's see i think you could do the the web site again please eastbay warriors dot org orgy orgies while that sounds very exciting what makes eastbay unique among other football programs are other youth sports well couple of things one we have one hundred twenty volunteers and volunteers adult volunteers really we have ten you football teams and eight cheerleading squad we average two things that we do with our volunteers they all have to have full background checks they and from what is they now have students are participating as spores that have the sales skill sets to have maintain their academic standards to make sure that they have the studies one of things that we try to teach our kids to be able to have the time a set up time management study skill habits they have that nature so in that way when they do go into the high school levels they are not just as people were say dumb jocks or just going into play to sports or when they also have an ability to be able to make learn and maintain their academic standards so do you have anything through the year that people who watch this show might come and see our benefit from how you do what you do  start our season in august august first is when we start for kids is looking to sign up we actually start our science in march so march march one of these is we have four hundred twenty five kids participate in two thousand and thirteen four hundred twenty all the schools we're still we're still in terms of sports we're only been around this is our seventeen seasons so we still young but we're growing and we're expanding and letting everyone know that we're about all good yeah because i can imagine that this would be the the answer for a lot of schools to motivate academic success correct and not only sports but academic success as well correct as star soft at the young way level because most of the schools in order to replace sports you have to maintain a two point zero g p a oh really and what happens is when you have kids that play outside of the school no one's montero monitor maintain those grades the kids in the pairs maybe but not the a ministry of or the sports that they're playing so one of the things is we try to teach in that let them know that they have to maintain those academic standards to in order to play so then how did you decide to what made you decide to do this if you don't mind repeating well the thing that made me was most my son playing football when he played for a team called the oakland saints and they were based out of oakland and his last year in a grade he they qualify for the state championship and the next year in ninth grade i used to travel within the different places and one of the things is that most of the kids on his a great team did not play football anymore and i was wondering why when i talk to those young people they all said well i don't have the you know you've baseball is so one maintainer grace school doesn't know that they're playing after school baseball so the school doesn't know that they need to have someone monitoring their grades the baseball team hopefully they're doing that if they're not then they need to start if they play a basketball the same way however with part warner is very warriors part one of football we're doing that we're maintaining we're monitoring their grades so when they do go to school they also have the exposure that we're having a practice a couple hours a day for three days a week that they also maintain their academic standards so you don't have any difficulty motivating them to participate the motivation is they want to play football and they want to cheer the second motivations were were pretty successful we were able to send three that in order to play freeze bay you have to have a maintain a high level so they go of with not doing a school hours they go during a vacation period actually they go during the school time we went from december fifth through december fifteenth oh they were celebrating the holidays at the time it was right before the holidays one thing is when we go down to orlando florida we also at that point they they do play football they play and they do cheer for the championships well thank you so much point sharing with us because i'm hoping you will get a lot of phone calls about young people that need to participate but it also sounds like they know all about you because i've heard many pop warner over and over again and it's an amazing congratulations on success thank you much it sounds like that's what you are about the success that it ties in with not only sports but with the academics yes thank you and building character that's very responsibility yes thank you so much but i think you already know and he was right but that's not the point of the story really good the wrestlers however being good at the wrestling part of the wrestling business means that you make the other guy in the ring with you look like he doesn't suck and that guy gets the applause and i gets the credit the problem is through none starts to think that the on islamic muslim fundamentalist susie be able to make some money off of fundamentalists and the like don't mention that the history of professional wrestling is filled with generic sloppy middle eastern russian native american public services take american money and send it back to his comrades has connections with iran and this is really an iran whole iranian is really iraqi very body and al qaida and bombers and the french and i'm actually going in the middle eastern or all this but i keep my mouth shut and i make things work we gotta go back home we gotta go back to brooklyn to the bronx or whatever and we got to look a little brown kids in the eye and defend our decision we're going to show the way it isn't so bad  and that says the point of the story welcome back to part two of our show that is about the speech and debate and i'm going to ask our guests who is mr jesse garrett who is the coordinator of speech and debate at james logan high school in union city california what is for instance forensics well dr cannon forensics is the the definition traditionally is a search and pursuit of tru it's based on the greek word form when a person used to die the greeks would assemble public week to discuss and try to solve and decipher what happened what we see in speech and debate is youth competitors pursuing the truth via the arts as well as critical thinking and argumentation so that sounds very they're complex does that compare at all with speech and debate of the speech side would be the interpretations side pursuing the truth through language and arch performing arts and then the debate side is the critical thinking argumentation and the analysis component the pursuit of that truth yes and when we started the show we had two young men who performed they were where they performing other was the senior and his name is francisco sierra and yes ma'am yeah and it was so powerful to see the energy that they put into that yes it's a tremendous tremendous activity forensics offers you the opportunity to develop their own voices they work hours and hours on putting these performances together in order to be able to learn how to work themselves and to find their own voice which is why i thought it was apt that the title be giving you face giving you a voice in his head then how does that help in their whole career as students forensics is truly a life skill a lie no matter what opportunities you pursue what field of work you end up going into you must be able to articulate yourselves and to get your point across you have to be able to develop your voice and to use it effectively to communicate so forensics is definitely a life skill our youth learn the fundamentals of speech the fundamentals of communication as well as how and what it means to be professional decorum to be able to communicate themselves in an effective way so that everyone in the audience can understand the message so i would like to thank you so much as we wrap up because the young man was so productive in their presentation and it helps us to see exactly what you just said about what it is i want to thank you so much on behalf of dr tom lindsay jr who is the coordinator i am his assist coordinator at james organize school i thank you tremendously for this opera your welcome and he is so well known i'm so happy to hear that you were he was the coordinator and you were one of his student i am actually an alumni of the program again a success story thank you so much