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[quote=Anonymous]OP here.  Thank you to those that posted with sincere comments.

My daughter only plays two sports and most kids do at least one music or art half elective.  She still has multiple study halls a week.  Her sport outside of school is mainly weekends from late Spring until early Fall and doesn't really affect school that much.  Otherwise she has no outside commitments. I don't feel like that is over scheduling.  I know there are some kids who 100% focus on nothing but academics but I don't think that is healthy nor do I think that would make her happy.

And no we are not gunning for Ivy.  But I don't want her to start dropping honors courses if it is not the norm.  I guess my thought is she could probably get mostly A's in non-honors but then it would be really hard to get back into an honors track. And that the transition to high school with more organizing, autonomy and speed of glasswork.  Sports until 6pm was new too. She is doing much better this quarter.

Anyway, thanks for letting me rant.  It is tough trying to encourage but not over push.  And she is undecided too.  Some days she is in the "I can do anything, bring it on" vibe and the next it is "I am so overwhelmed!"  [/quote]

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