"My dad always taught me: you win with class, and you lose with dignity," Tarkanian said.
"You try to build a sense of family in your class, and when you lose somebody and gain somebody in the middle of the year, it strips the fabric a bit," she said in the teachers' lounge as her colleagues nodded in agreement.
The first-year manager Tim Raines, a seven-time All-Star, says he has grown weary of losing so many core players and has doubts about continuing that approach in a league that players said had the talent level of about Class AA. "You lose 14 players in a season and you don't get anything back in return, that's a tough transition," Raines said.
Stay organized and not have to stop by your locker after every class, buy a file folder that looks like an accordion, or a binder with folders that are marked with your name,class period, and class number so if you lose it for whatever reason, they can return it to you.
"If you lose the middle class, you're in danger of losing a lot," he said.
Sometimes you lose focus in class because you can't understand what your teacher is saying.
Wait, and you lose the upper-class coterie that demands gifted programs start in kindergarten and not one millisecond later.
"When you start putting yourself into ghettos, either rich, poor or middle class, you start to lose touch with each other..
If you weren't working class, you would have lost it and assimilated to the bourgeois, as people still do whether it's Morningside or Kelvinside [upmarket areas of Edinburgh and Glasgow] – an approximation of Hampstead Heath is what they attempt".
