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Snyder didn even win a Big Ten or NCAA title for the Buckeyes as a freshman. But he tore through the field to win at the worlds in Las Vegas in 2015, becoming the first American teenager to do so.

Snyder had planned to take a redshirt year to focus on the Olympics. But he couldn stay off the mat, electing to rejoin his teammates in January. Snyder went undefeated at heavyweight for the Buckeyes, beating two time NCAA champion Nick Gwiazdowski despite giving up at least 40 pounds.

Snyder lost three times in the run up to the Olympics, including a 2 1 defeat to Goziumov in Germany last month, and saw his world ranking drop to fourth.

But Snyder let the rest of the field know he was locked in from his opening match, shoving Javier Cortina Lacerra of Cuba off the mat and onto the wooden platform separating the other mats.

In the quarterfinals, Snyder raced out to a 3 0 lead and grabbed Albert Saritov with a body lock, slamming the Romanian to the mat for four points and a 7 0 win.

Elizbar Odikadze stunned Snyder with a four point throw early in the semifinals. Snyder responded with a flurry of point scoring moves, taking control by walking the Georgian to the edge of the mat with one leg in his arms and tripping him for a takedown.

I don have the power to score four points, then he is probably better than me. I have a lot of confidence in myself, Snyder said.

Snyder used the knowledge he gained from losing to Goziumov in July to best him at the Olympics. Knowing Goziiumov excels at scoring early and then defending well, Snyder attacked and put up the crucial first score.

The youngest American to win Olympic wrestling gold had been Henry Cejudo, who was less than three months older than Snyder is now when he finished first at the 2008 Beijing Games.

Cejudo eventually chose to focus on mixed martial arts. But considering Snyder age, talent and passion for wrestling, it might not be the last world championship he wins.

Eleven year old Woosuk Kim sees his mother only three or four times a year. That’s because he’s part of what Koreans call a „goose family”: a family that migrates in search of English language schooling.

A goose family, Woosuk explains, means „parents mom and dad have to be separate for the kids’ education.”

Woosuk’s father brought him and his little brother to America two years ago to attend Hancock Park Elementary, a public school in Los Angeles. The boys’ mother stayed in South Korea to keep working.

Woosuk’s family is unusual. In most cases, it’s the father who stays behind. „Goose fathers” are even a fixture of South Korean TV dramas, usually appearing as lonely drudges, working nonstop to support their families abroad.

Goose families prefer to migrate to English speaking countries. New Zealand and Australia are popular, but the United States is especially prized.

A School Transformed

„I would say that we have a very significant Korean population,” says Principal Ashley Parker. „They start first grade, second grade we have new fifth graders coming from Korea.”

A generation ago, Hancock Park was predominantly Jewish. Now it’s 37 percent ethnic Korean. The school doesn’t track the students’ citizenship, so it’s impossible to know how many are Korean nationals; but they’ve become a significant population in this school.

Shari Cooper, a volunteer for the school’s parent organization, gets regular inquiries from prospective new „goose families.”

I think whole life is competition when they grow up. But when they are young, when they are small kids, they need some happiness.”

„From Korean families, I probably get three to four emails every month. And just this week, I’ve had four, because over the summer is when most of the families come,” Cooper says.
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Some of the Koreans come because a parent has found a job in Los Angeles. But when just a mother arrives with her children, they’re usually here for the school. Jihyun Lee brought her children over last year.

„[My husband] wanted [our kids] to come to a more globalized place, so that their minds become more globalized, larger,” Lee says through a translator.

Lee says her kids are here not only to learn English, but also to gain a special edge when they go back home. Lee’s Korean American friend, Diana Park, explains that having lived in America carries significant status.

„If you do not have the American experience and you live in Korea, it’s not the same as people who’ve been here,” Park says. „They treat you differently in Korea if you say you’ve been in America.”

Reading, Writing And Recess

And there’s something else: Many of these goose parents including Lee say they’re also here to get away from Korean schools.

„Although the academics in Korea are more rigorous, there’s no creative mind there,” says Park, translating for Lee. „Everything’s rote memorization, and it’s purely academic there’s no individual thought in their teaching.”

Goose family migration combines educational ambition with a desire for leisure. To be blunt, for these Korean kids, American schools represent a chance to relax a little. When Lee asked her kids what they liked about their first year in an American school, the first thing they said was „recess.”

„Apparently they don’t have recess in Korea,” Park adds. „They get time to eat and that’s it, and then I think right after school they go to another after school program. So they don’t really get any recess or any time to play.”

The American parents at the school are proud of its above average standardized test scores, so it can be a little disconcerting to hear that the Korean kids see it as a place to kick back.

Shari Cooper says she considers the Koreans to be a salutary academic challenge for her own kids, and she says relations with the Korean families are generally good.

In Tough Times, Some Tension

Still, given the painful budget cuts in Los Angeles public schools, there has also been some grumbling.

„They were feeling like, wait a second, you know, why are these families driving up in these expensive cars and dressing so well they should be giving to the school,’ ” Cooper says. „So there was a little bit of animosity. You felt it at the meetings; you didn’t feel it on the playground so much.”

Cooper says the booster club has done a better job of getting Korean parents to donate to the fund drive, and tensions have eased. Now, when she gets emails from South Korea inquiring about tuition at Hancock Park, she says she answers that it’s a free public school but that fund drive donations are appreciated.

„It doesn’t sound like a very American way to go,” she says. „It’s a free country with a free public education, and if you start charging people, they’re going to start feeling more like visitors. They’re not going to be invested in the school and the country in the same way.”

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