Which Sweathog is most likely to leave/make it big?

[DTF955]

We know, obviously, Kotter moved away to be a teacher then came back. I posted earlier a question about which of the Sweathogs would be most likely to be teaching at Buchanan in 10 years. This is a slightly different one.

Which Sweathog is most likely to go away not to learn to be a teacher so they can come back, but jsut to leave the area entirely?

To quote Barry Manilow's "Brooklyn Blues," that bridge seems a hundred miles wide,a dn all their dreams are on the other side, but it's hard to get out of that kind of neighborhood. Indeed, i thought about this because with our youth ministry, on Thursday nights recently I've been teaching some inner city kids about leadership and I made a few WBK references. (And perhaps introduced a couple new fans to the show. ) They're in the inner city here in the Rust Belt, so it's not nearly as daunting, but it is still rough. (One in particular is interested in gangs and has been expelled - please pray for him.)

Anyway, which of the Sweathogs (I don't count Beau) is most likely to be able to get out of there and stay out. Oh, maybe Washington would come back and teach, for instance, but it's also possible that he is smart enough with basketball to be a coach somewhere else.Who knows, maybe he leads a Cinderella team into the NCAA tourney. So, your5 answer could e the same as for the "most likely to come back to teach in 10 years."

Edit: I decided to make it multople choice. My other poll question was along the liens of "Which is more likely, in ten years, to be the teacher who enters..." becasue that was my idea for a closing scene of a finale - I think they should have graduated int he last episode and then the final scene had Kotter welcoming the new teacher 10 years later and the paper irplane flying into the former Swe4athog's head just like the openign scene of Kotter, so it'd be like, "One of them was inspired by Kotter to do jsut waht he did."

Here, though, it could be any of them. Horshack to protect Mary and get her out of that area, Barbarinto or Epstein just to get away, Washington being a coach soemwhere else, or wahtever.

[Retro4Life]

Didn't they basically imply at one point that Horshack intentionally got bad grades so he could stay a member of the Sweathogs?

I'd say Arnold has the best chance, and the most reason (being married, etc.)

[hatwink]

Any of them reasonably could have made the jump, but in my mind, it would have to be Washington. He had the charisma, the smarts, all of it.

[AMackII]

Horshack, Barbarino & Washington