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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's no such thing as underscheduled for a child who goes to school full time and gets good grades and takes a challenging courseload, and has extra curricular activities built into the school day or afterschool. I think oberscheduling has become more of a concern because elementary schools no longer provide organized sports or rigorous arts. So parents have to drive around town filling these needs. Maybe choose a private school that provides these things and you wont feel overscheduled.[/quote]

This is the elementary school forum.  Most kids are not picking the courseload.  And PPs are literally complaining that kids spend their time afterschool doing structured extra curricular activities instead of playing in the neighborhood.  I doubt those PPs would feel any differently if the after-school EC activities were organized through the school as opposed to through some other organization or company.  [/quote]

You can pick a school with more challenging academics so that your child stays busy productively, instead of having to do a lot of busywork-equivalent activities. You also wouldn't feel the pressure to add stuff like tutoring, enrichment, and private instrument lessons on top  of all the sports, because good private elementaries provide that. I'm just saying that free public school plus a bunch of activities can end up being more expensive that a very good private school.[/quote]

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