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Remember your high school years? Remember your decision-making abilities, and how little you understood about what the future might hold? Fortunately, it seems as though Ohio's high school principals remember them, too.
Those principals voted down -- 538-254 -- a referendum that would have allowed high school athletes to be paid for their name, image and likeness.
"It's a democratic process. Obviously it got voted way down and I like it the way it is," Reynoldsburg, Ohio, athletic director Jack Purtell told WCMH in Columbus.
It is the right decision. It protects kids just a little bit longer before a few of them are thrown into the world of college athletics. Allowing them to sign deals might have opened them up to exploitation not even the smartest and most savvy student-athlete would have been able to fend off or endure.
High school-aged kids should be focused on working hard and making it to the next step. Ohio's high school principals did them a favor by ensuring they will be able to do so without distractions.