In mid-September, Bradley Beal made a surprise visit to Ron Brown College Preparatory High School in Washington, DC. As part of what would become a year-long partnership and eventual adoption of the school, Beal wanted to shadow Principal Benjamin Williams and serve as the “Principal for the Day” before his seventh NBA season started.
Ron Brown College Preparatory High School (RBHS) is an all-male public charter school, similar to the all-boys Chaminade College Preparatory School in St. Louis, where Beal went to middle and high school. Beal’s family instilled education in him when he was growing up. When Beal had to leave the University of Florida, he was pre-medicine and did not want to leave because he valued the experience of being a student.