It's a story that brings to light the Californian food bowl immigrant workers and their families plight of working for long stretches of days for little money and how in this particular town of McFarland, a teacher sees the potential of students and takes them to the top of the State's cross country championships.
It's based on a true story and at the end of the movie they show the actual people whose lives were portrayed in the movie. The interesting thing is that most of the team of 7 did really well and went to College (Tech equivalent) and then returned to support others in their community in education as teachers and running coaches.
The neat thing also is that although they won the State finals, they went on for another decade training many other runners and inspiring people in their community to pursue their dreams. It was also neat to see the community rally around the runners because it would have changed all of their lives.
It makes me think of those who have inspired me growing up, like my parents initially and then some good teachers, although I like to say that despite many of the not so great teachers, I was still able to make it with supportive parents.
And I guess that that's one of the keys to success for those of us in the community who have persevered through financial constraints to start with but then overcome by not giving up and then giving back to our communities and in role modeling what is possible, we inspire others to pursue their dreams too...
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