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Originally posted by LarryS
While I agree that the numbers are very disturbing and that these kids would be better served with a college degree, let me ask all of you a question. If, after the first two years of you college experience, you thought you could be successful in the field you wanted to persue, "experts" agreed with you and someone was willing to pay you millions of dollars to leave college who can honestly say they would turn down the chance?
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Well, I know I'm a little weird, but I did in fact have the chance to leave college and go into a career with the offer of immediate big money, and bigger out there in the near future; with national exposure and celebrity status. It was a career that I had been working away at, and the offer was that sort of phone call everyone always dreams of. And I turned it down. And I have never regretted it, other than those three am regrets that everyone has. (It was NOT an athletic career, by the way) But that was more years ago than I care to admit. How can you convince kids in this age of glitter and hype? "Hoop Dreams" doesn't look as real as "Space Jam". And then, too, there may be more kids that turn down the offer than we realize. We only hear about the kids that leave school, but there may be some of the others. Why would any commentator want to discuss mature, quiet, logical thinking?
[Edited by rainmaker on Oct 18th, 2002 at 11:38 PM]