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[quote=Anonymous]My child is a gymnast. Every school and district handles it differently. Many of her teammates have transitioned into home school, community college classes for HS credit, or virtual school sponsored by their district.

Her club has maybe 8 school districts represented plus numerous private schools, and no two schools handle it the same. In my experience, elementary and HS have the most flexible scheduling, and MS the least. Depending on the district, some let out quite late which makes things even more complicated.

We have her dismissed 15 minutes/day, 3x/week. That takes buy-in from the administration and individual teachers every year, and often there is resistance. It doesn’t help that teacher assignments and schedules at her school are not set until the Thursday before the school year starts.

She has teammates at Catholic school who do virtual school for math and dismiss at 12 noon, teammates who have all their core academic classes scheduled for morning and skip electives in the afternoon, and teammates like her who have a slightly early dismissal and miss just packing up or transition time or study time. Fortunately competition season is quite short or else there would be lots of missed school for travel meets and Friday competitions. I don’t know if it’s worth it- we still rush to practice in traffic and I feel like we are walking on thin ice with school. Her gym friends are solid, kind girls and more reliable than school friends, so that’s what keeps us from stopping.

I’m stressed every year from March-September waiting for practice schedules and school schedules, because it’s never guaranteed that it will work out. This is the time to start discussions with school because if it’s not going to work, you need alternate plans for school, tennis or both.[/quote]

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