But growing up in California, I mostly kept fit by biking, bodysurfing and playing endless pickup games of basketball and touch football with neighborhood kids.

但是由于我是在加州长大的，我的大部分锻炼都是骑车、冲浪、在篮球场上不停地拣球、和邻居小孩玩橄榄球。

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Over the years, the Hubachs have played host to over 4, 800 kids, mostly 6 - to 14-year-olds.

多年来，赫巴克一家已经接待了4 800多个孩子，大多数都在6至14岁之间。

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But somehow the arrival of the mostly African-American and Latino children was still a shock. As the black and brown kids got into the pool, the white parents pulled their kids out.

然而，这个大部分由非洲裔美国小孩和拉丁美洲的小孩组成的团队的到来仍然引起了震动：这群黑色和褐色皮肤的小孩一进游泳池，那些白人父母就把他们的孩子拉了出来。

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And so what you end up with in New York City, is a very small number of very good schools that serve largely middle, and upper middle class kids - and then a large number of not-so-good schools that serve mostly poor kids.

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The great thing about being a kid is that you are mostly around other kids, and children are generally very open about what they think and ask questions when they don't understand.

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Lots of granola-types here, plenty of hippie families and lots and lots of people who refuse to vaccinate their kids, mostly on the left.

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