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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DD plays soccer and will be going to a public high school next year. She plays at the national level and misses several school days due to this. She is in the MCPS magnet program. If she gets into the magnet program in high school next year, I am not sure if she can balance academics and sports. Parents whose kids have gone to magnet programs, please share your experiences and if your DC was able to handle both. 
Other alternative would be to send her to a private school. However I have heard that academics in MCPS magnet schools are at a very high level and not comparable to most private schools. If we choose to send her to private schools with good academics, which ones would you recommend? [/quote]

When you say "plays at the national level," you mean she is a youth national team regular? If so, and she continues on that path, I think it will get increasingly difficult to balance with magnet school level of academics.  Unlike ECNL or the DA, where you will only miss a few days here or there, with the ynt, you can miss a week or more of school at a time, multiple times a year.  We have a friend whose kid has missed between 3 and 6 weeks of school a year since 8th grade for national team camps/trips, and making up the work at a regular, non-magnet high school has been hard.  It would be much harder with the amount of homework and difficulty of classwork I assume you'd miss at a magnet.  I recommend you get in touch with the principal of the magnet HS to discuss the issue.  Some principals and teachers are fine so long as a kid makes up the work, and others are not.  In terms of private schools, in addition to those mentioned by others, there are two current national team players at St. John's in DC.

This is the sort of situation where it would be nice to have a crystal ball.  If your child continues to play at the ynt level and continues to excel at school, she will be able to have her pick of top colleges regardless of whether she attends the magnet.  She'll also have great options if she is "merely" a star on an ECNL or DA team.  As mentioned on this thread though, in many cases you cannot easily pursue an engineering or lab science type major if you are playing at a D1 college. [/quote]

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