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To: SkyPilot
Yet there’s no problem with these “students” remaining in the schools. Somehow, a faked sports pedigree is a great injustice.

Now that you’ve mentioned Proposition 48, what I recall back then now seems quite ironic.

In the late 80’s, there were many after school specials, sitcoms and made for TV movies, whereas the story focused on a high school athlete being approached by college coaches.

He (all were as I remember) was a star, a good kid, a hero, loved, etc and would navigate personal life with the added lure of “making it big” dangled before him by predatory college recruiters.

Then, the discovery, our protagonist is illiterate and for some reason it’s everyone else’s fault but especially, those white guys from those colleges.

12 posted on 02/01/2020 6:36:50 AM PST by NativeSon ( What Would Virginia Do? #WWVD)
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To: NativeSon
In the late 80’s, there were many after school specials, sitcoms and made for TV movies, whereas the story focused on a high school athlete being approached by college coaches. He (all were as I remember) was a star, a good kid, a hero, loved, etc and would navigate personal life with the added lure of “making it big” dangled before him by predatory college recruiters. Then, the discovery, our protagonist is illiterate and for some reason it’s everyone else’s fault but especially, those white guys from those colleges.

Yup. The "system" failed them. Not the parents. Not the students themselves.

It's ALWAYS someone else's fault.

Someone else is blame...especially......you know.

15 posted on 02/01/2020 7:14:57 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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