At the playground outside Perkins Elementary in San Diego there’s a mural featuring an oversized kid sitting on a small planet Earth, staring off into space. On the mural are the words sueña grande, and right above that is the English translation: dream big.
Not far from that mural, on a winter Monday afternoon, cones have been set up around a basketball court and balls have been distributed to a group of 12 or so kids. At the end of the court, a man named Coach Juan is putting some of the kids through drills. At the other end, the person running the clinic looks barely older than the elementary school students.
