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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That was my life in high school. Class from 8.00 to 3.15. mandatory sports four days a week till 4.45. Other extra currics at night and on weekends. Plus five hours of homework a night. Averaged five or six hours of sleep a night, which is not healthy for a teen.
I worked harder my junior year in high school than any year since. Even without sports and extra currics, homework plus school is over a twelve hour day.
It is absurd.
Make sure she gets at least 7.5 hours a night of sleep. Insist on it. 
Encourage her to limit her extra currics.[/quote]

I should add, I went to a top five college and it was like a vacation after high school! All my friends felt the same way.[/quote]

I also went to NCS and me and my friends got into great colleges and felt completely burned out by the time we arrived.  We look back on our college years with regret because we were decompressing rather than taking advantage of what the schools had to offer.  College shouldn't be a vacation.

Its just appalling to sacrifice your happiness as a teen for some idea that there will be a pay off.  There are schools with much less pressure that send their graduates to top colleges.[/quote]

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