Hoop Dreams: Academics are no laughing matter for Douglass' Stephen Clark

 
BY SCOTT WRIGHT, Staff Writer, swright@opubco.com
Published: February 9, 2012

During the first couple weeks of the school year last August, Brenda Griggs noticed that Stephen Clark was having a little too much fun while she was trying to teach her English class.

Nothing outlandish or disrespectful. Just typical behavior of a teenage boy with a splash of class clown mixed into his personality.

Clark, known by most as Stevie, is a 16-year-old junior at Douglass High School . He atte...


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