Black = Education-less?

[Lady of Pearl]

Sadly, education is not valued among our youth as it was stressed to me when I was growing up. Students need to see role models other than entertainers or athletes. I had a discussion regarding this earlier with one of my colleagues about his son who wants to hang on the block with his peers playing basketball. His father is trying to stress the importance of getting an education rather than playing basketball. A lot of those young men will not even make it into the NBA. From his own personal experience - the father played ball in college but got a degree in engineering as well, a lot of his peers later reflected that they wished they had gotten an education like he did so that they would have increased their life chances.