For many years there has been a road map laid out for kids that aspired to be professional athletes.  For the kid that wanted to be the basketball player, football player, baseball player, and most other traditional sports figures, they would have a place to go from an early age and get training while having fun in the process of learning.  Competition is a motivating machine for human’s period.  Whether competing in contact or non-contact competitions, the drive to win is strong.  So if you give a child a chance to compete and have fun, they are more likely to learn more.

For many years children that have aspired to be the singer, the rapper, the guitar player, the drummer or many other entertainment figures, they have had a lack of places to go from an early age to get training while having fun in the process of learning.  A road map with navigators to guide them through dark times isn't generally available to them. 

What this has created is a big down turn in the high school graduation rates across the US.  A lot of the youth that fit into this statistic are lacking something that the culture of professional sports has created for many, many years now.

Traditional sports athletes have had a reason to stay in high school because they want to have the chance to go to the next level which, they know, prepares them for the ultimate level of their aspirations.  The next level costs though, so they have to try and keep a certain grade level to be accepted for a possible free ride at the next level.  This creates a good challenge for a lot of athletes because they have to learn enough to keep a grade level to move on.  While they may not like what their learning, they have to have an understanding of what’s being taught to move up.  Now an athlete is learning the lessons they love on the field of play they’re aspiring to reach and the lessons they may not like from the scholastic approach.  This is good for the athlete because if they don’t reach the ultimate level of their aspirations, they have gotten much further than they may have because they competed and did learn lessons on their way to falling short of their ultimate aspiration as youth.  This applies to the majority of athletes.  Those that don’t reach their ultimate aspiration have a good chance of finding another position in society that they fit in and can live a healthy life playing their new position in life.

What M.I.D.L. is doing to help the Dropout Rate

The Music Industry Development League is a business model that has never been applied to the business of music.  The reasoning used reflects the successful strategies and methodologies of the Major League Sports culture.

H-sport or Harmony Sport – music fused with words and action, used to create a harmonious presentation in the form of competition...

Working with the youth systems to help develop players that may one day play for a M.I.D.L. is just one way.  For good players to come out of the youth system, there must be good coaches in place.  There will be coaching clinics where technical staff work directly with some of the youth coaches to give them a feel for how the M.I.D.L. Professional Game is taught.  

The requirements for the youth to participate will be similar to the way they have the school system set today with requiring a certain grade average to participate in the club competitions.  A kid that wants to play for a club will have to learn enough in their scholastics to continue to move up the stages of development. This will create the needed challenge to understand what is being taught to them so that they can reach a place that they’re aspiring to be, which will cause you to see more graduation seats taken up on graduation day.

Over the next 10-20 years, this will cause a major fall in the high school dropout rate.   It will also cause the prison population rate to fall dramatically. 

According to –The Silent Epidemic; “The government would reap $45 billion in extra tax revenues and reduced costs of public health, of crime and justice, and in welfare payments if the number of high school dropouts among 20-year old's in the U.S. today, which includes more than 700,000 high school dropouts, were cut in half”

These revenues could be used to reinsert into the economy in a much more useful way.