Professional Sports Affirmative Action.
Imagine this for a moment: You are seventeen years old, and a star athlete in your high school. Everyone thinks that you have it great, but the truth is, athletics is about all that you have going for you. You are terrible academically, and hate being at school. At home, your family is having financial problems, and so it is not a fun place to be either. However, today you think your luck is too good to be true. Today a scout for the NBA asked you to play professional basketball, as soon as you graduated high school. You will be making a million dollars a year and never be forced to be in school again. What would you do?.
This is the case for many high school athletes. People like Bobby Convey, Andy Trenkle, and many other young athletes are faced with this decision right now. Unfortunately, they, as well as the people offering, are receiving a lot of grief over this ordeal. Many people around these communities feel that athletes should not be able to play professional sports right out of high school. However, this is America, and those athletes, who are legally adults, need to be able to make their own decision based on their personal preferences and not what society thinks that they should do. If everyone always listened to society and didn't bother to listen to the little voices of the world, then women would still stay at home with their children and slavery would still be an issue in the United States. Athletes should be able to decide for themselves whether or not they are mature enough to play professional sports. Kobe Bryant and Mike Tyson are only two of the most famous names in sports. No one seems too upset that these people were allowed to skip college. The feeling that athletes are not ready for professional sports because of their age alone is simply not right. There are many cases of athletes competing on a near professional level and they do not receive any criticism for their .
