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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My child averages more time per week on sporting activities than homework.  This is typical for private school students.[/quote]
Isn't this imbalanced  time allocation concerning to the parents?[/quote]

I think many of the students who spend the most time on sports do so because they are playing for their school and for an outside club.  Students who are involved in club sports at the high school level often hope that they will be able to play their sport in college, and will have an advantage in admissions (and maybe even get some scholarship money, but usually the boost at admissions is the greater prize).  So they do the juggling and yes, the student does generally average more time per week in sports than homework.

In other cases, even where there is no school/club double-whammy, you just have a student who plays for a coach/program that requires a large time investment (say: practice, plus film sessions, plus weight room work) and/or the student is more interested in sports than academics.

I would venture to say that if you ask educators at the local private schools, they would agree that the sports/school balance has tipped too far towards the sports side, but it is a difficult juggernaut to slow down given the larger cultural obsession with sports.[/quote]

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