High School Basket Ball Star to Drop Out....

[rayjohnson83]

I say......GO FOR IT!!!!

[jlewis]

Wow....  this is a tough call for me.    I can see that if you are guaranteed hundreds of thousands of dollars in salary in europe, then I can understand  bypassing the college route.   There are plenty of college graduates ( me included ) that are not making that kind of money.     What I don't understand is why he can't minimally finish High school.   If he is going pro.....  he could  do several different  summer leagues in europe and still get his high school diploma.  I completely understand  bypassing college, that route isn't for everyone.

european bball is like american baseball.   They got several different leagues  each with increasing competitiveness.  So you could play the summer,  get paid,  come back  and finish High school.  Once you know you aren't going to compete at the amateur  level,   then you could even continue to work out stateside with a potential   pro team ( during the school  high school year).


Seems like money is the driving factor on this one because we are already almost at the end of this school year,  and one more year ( especially if you can play the summer)  doesn't seem like a  major obstacle.


Jlewis

[Docdb04]

I think this is a bad move.  What if he is a bust in the European League?  What if he is a bust in the NBA?  I mean, where is the value of education?  There is no reward for dropping out of high school.  Now if he was drafted after high school into the NBA, then that is a different story (Even though I feel that NBA prospects should at least complete two years of college). 

C'mon, that what's wrong with the younger generation now, they want the money the quick way.  We can't agree to something like this, then get mad when the government doesn't value our children's education or when some schools (urban areas in particular) doesn't have the necessary resources they need to teach our kids.  We have to teach our kids to look past being rich and teach them on how to become wealthy.           

[B3Wannabe]

There is no reward for dropping out of high school

As I said earlier, I didn't finish high school, and I'm doing just fine.

People thought I was going to be some ghetto reject, because I didn't want to do what everyone else did.

As long as he's doing something positive, there isn't anything wrong with this. Maybe he isn't solely doing it for the money.

The goal of education should be to develop people that will contribute to the society. As long as he keeps his head, he'll be just fine.

Also, traveling overseas is most likely going to help him more than his last couple years of high school. He'll gain a different perspective of the world that many Americans don't ever get the chance to see.