Now that youve mentioned Proposition 48, what I recall back then now seems quite ironic.
In the late 80s, 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 its everyone elses 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.