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NYC Teen Unfairly Banned From Playing High School Football
10.12.2012 | WABC-TV News | AFC client Ashton McKenzie was featured on WABC News. Ashton, who immigrated to New York from Jamaica in 2002, is banned from playing football at Dewitt Clinton High School because he aged-out of eligibility due to being unfairly held back in third grade.