Falling for a Phoney
Victor Wombanyama is the darling of San Antonio. How can a teenager be over 7 ft tall, move like a wind on the basketball court, and say he wants to learn under Pop? In the latest HEB commercial he even let others on the team take the spotlight, and he just gave his beautiful smile and said a few words. He seems to be the real deal. Others can be just the opposite. One morning when I was at Wilson an attractive young man came into the office to enroll. He brought a piece of paper with his classes and great grades. He and his dad were coming from Colorado, he said, and wanted to be in a small school just outside a larger town so he could be involved in everything. My heart began to sing. I could pair him in informative speaking with Randy, and they would go straight to state. And I could put him in the one act play cast which was already good, and there would be another state winner. The math teacher saw visions of winning number sense contests.The football coach could be seen dancing i...