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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Free play is all fun and games until middle school. Then the kids with no activities have nothing to do and it’s downhill from there. [/quote]

Yep, those are the kids who get in trouble. Just hanging around with nothing to do at those ages leaves lots of time for drugs and sex. I saw it among other kids growing up, saw it among kids in the same grade with my kids over the years.

Idle hands and all that. 
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A full academic course load at a pressure cooker school is a whole activity unto itself. You must send your kids to weak schools. Nobody at my kid's school has time for 3 sports, basketweaving, and barbershop quartet practice. [/quote]

Your expensive private isn't any different than a public high school where kids do pre-algebra in 9th and take multiple AP classes.  And, yet, we all seem to make it work.  It's all about priorities.[/quote]

Being a 3-sport athlete has taught my kid time management.  And his greatest motivation to get good grades in school is to have more options to play a sport in college. It's not for everyone, and it's not even how I was raised.  He also plays an instrument in honors program that he is obsessed with.  He doesn't need more time on Snapchat or YouTube, or even time to “hang out” with friends as that typically means trouble in teenage years [/quote]

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