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[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]

I have a kid at a pressure cooker high school with straight As and plays 3 sports. He also does academic competitions. He does not do music. The achievers at these schools do it all. My kid is only a freshman but I have met upperclassman parents including ones who have kids recently admitted to Harvard. These kids do so much. While I don’t know their exact test scores or grades. I’m sure they all have very high gpas to get admitted to T20 colleges. Their activity lists are long.[/quote]

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