He coasts through his studies earning only passable grades. When his academic ability is discovered and he is offered a scholarship to an exclusive high school, he becomes alienated from the boys in the hood. He still is an outsider at the new school. It is his basketball ability and the desire for the school to win the championship that ensures his precarious acceptance at the school. When he learns that all he has to do is win the big game and all charges will be dropped, he deliberately throws the game and chooses to face the disciplinary board. It is perhaps this decision-not to take the easy way out-that causes Forrester to realize that he too must make a decision to emerge from his self-cultivated forest of dis
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