{"id":2214,"date":"2019-03-05T15:09:10","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T23:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/southern-california\/?p=2214"},"modified":"2019-03-06T16:44:11","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T00:44:11","slug":"coach-hoops-story-from-the-playground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.playworks.org\/southern-california\/2019\/03\/05\/coach-hoops-story-from-the-playground\/","title":{"rendered":"Coach Hoops&#8217; Story From the Playground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Skai Thompson, \u201cCoach Hoops\u201d at 52nd Street Elementary School, LAUSD says,<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a 3rd grader in a special learning class. He was always just really angry and when his buttons were pushed and he was triggered, he was a tornado through the playground\u2014benches flipped over, trash cans kicked over. There wasn\u2019t too much emotional development happening. 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