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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It may depend on the school, and also which subjects are in the afternoon slots. If your child is on an Olympic track, they might work with you.

But generally, no they won’t, nor should they. The school day is short enough as it is, and they have to provide your child with a full education. [/quote]

This, OP.

Unless she is involved in serious, high-level competition already at her young age, or is clearly being professionally trained for that because she's a prodigy, the school won't work with you. I think you're smart to recognize both that YOU need her to go to school and that she needs the social aspect. Stick with what your gut is telling you. She loves skating now and may still love it forever but I think you already know not to give in on this.

If she keeps skating, much later look into something called "time release" scheduling in which a student gets special dispensation to leave school -- it gets used sometimes for students who are in intensive pre-professional dance programs and I would think it could apply to skaters with serious competitive training. But I have never heard of its being used for any student below high school level. And I am not saying FCPS specifically does time release for athletes or dancers etc.; I'm just aware that it's done in some school systems.[/quote]

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