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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I worry about the emotional well being of kids who, as sixth graders, are forced to travel to a middle school during the day to study algebra, commute as eighth graders back and forth from a high school every day for precalculus and can't study with their high school peers either but have to drive to a college several days a week from grade 11 on for who knows what variant of advanced algebra. Acceleration by three years (which is what taking algebra in sixth grade is) can turn into a 7 year sacrifice. It's worth it for a very very select few but makes no sense for most.[/quote]

But a child who starts athletics after school in 4th grade, doesn't see his classmates, cannot study with them because they have practice for 2 hours after school, has to eat an unhealthy dinner in the car to make it to another athletic event in the evening, crams in a little bit of homework before bedtime (the only time that they can get in homework), then gets up early to go for a run or the gym before school is a good thing to be promoted over the above.  Then they have games and travel events on weekends.  They see their athletic peers, but they never see or study with their academic peers.  School athletics consumes a lot more time and commitment for the entire family that the majority of accelerated learning students and their families have.
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