Steve Ballmer, center, and Lakeside coach Tavio Hobson, left, play basketball with youths at Rainier Vista Boys & Girls Club as part of the A PLUS Youth Program. Hobson had met Ballmer in the mid-2000s and had led workouts with Ballmer’s oldest son. (DEAN RUTZ / The Seattle Times, 2011)
The Steve Ballmer crusade at Lakeside School to buy athletics success at the high school level leaves me feeling incredibly sad [“With Ballmer’s aid, elite school pushed limits of prep-sports rules,” Local News, Aug. 17]. As a society, we have corrupted so many of the ideals and institutions that create opportunities for individuals to better themselves.
As an academic surgeon at the UW, I have witnessed continued erosion of academic standards in
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