LeBron James reinstated.

[MN BB Ref]

Originally posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.
My wife and I have two sons and we have done our parental duty to teach them right from wrong, when judges pervert the system like this one has done in Summit County, it makes it more difficult for parents of children all across this country to try to explain the craziness in our world to our children.

Mark, I agree with the conundrum we seem to face as parents. How do you teach your children the right values in life when everywhere around them they are bombarded by cases where a lack of good values is rewarded or ignored.

As for Mrs. James, what she did was legal although LeBron is benefitting from it in a backhanded way. None the less it is legal. The jerseys on the other hand are another story as far as I'm concerned. I guess if other students, including those that aren't athletes, were to come forward and testify that they also received jerseys/merchandise from this store because they too had good grades, then we could easily elieve LeBron's story. Until that happens I firmly believe he was capitalizing on his athletic fame.

Lastly, bringing software prodigies into this has nothing to do with this case. There aren't rules that apply to them, and if there were, then I would expect them to follow them as well. I personally am sick and tired of the way our society idolizes athletes and has a different set of rules that apply to them because they can jump high, run fast, catch balls, hit balls, skate backwards...what have you. Study history and you'll see that ancient Rome had the same set of values not too long before that civilization crumbled.

Our society needs to "get real"! Of course thats just my opinion.

Dave