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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not sure about the benefits, but most kids try out a sport and join lots of clubs. However, once a C or D grade drops on the report card, the first thing that gets cut is sports.

The only kids who have the time to do sports for more than one year are the academically advanced students who can manage to go home after two to three hours of sports practice plus car ride, complete their homework, and be prepared for quizzes the next day. Managing sports along with academics is not for the faint of heart, few manage to do them beyond freshman year.  Junior year academics is brutal, last thing they are thinking about is doing sports. [/quote]
My kid was a solid football player in middle school, so we thought he'd conquer TJ like a champ. But those Freshman fall practices went on late, often getting home around 8pm. By the time he showered and ate, it was 9pm, and with half his homework still untouched, staying awake past 11 was a struggle. Stress piled up as his grades in Biology and English formed a nice half-moon shaped C, while RS1 was a solid D. Math 1 was a nightmare all by itself.  Weekdays were filled with practices until 7pm or games until 9pm, leaving us parents frustrated and him facing losing game performance and failing grades. We all eagerly awaited the season's end in mid-November, hoping to focus on academics, but the road to grade recovery was tougher than intense two hour agility drills.[/quote]

This story does not quite ring true. A solid middle school football player is likely participating with the Varsity, not the Freshmen (TJ does not have a Freshmen football team or a JV for that matter, but the freshmen who are not varsity ready do have practices and skill development opportunities while they get ready for Varsity). The practices also end in almost all cases by 6:30, so the student would have to live incredibly far away to get home around 8 PM even after changing time in the locker room.

The games are exclusively on Fridays or in some cases Thursdays when there is no school on Friday, so those aren't a concern either.

And there are no such things as "two hour agility drills".[/quote]

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