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Perhaps they want something you don't?

We're not sporty but musical, and I took pains to choose a teaching method that would suit us as well as a great teacher. It's VERY expensive, but the difference in quality of teaching is incredible. However, non-musical parents probably wouldn't care.

So the rec tier is perhaps just for the families who want to occupy their children and have fun doing an activity they like. The upper tier is for families who care about becoming as proficient as possible in that particular sport (or in our case, music).
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A music mom here. I can't agree that it equates perfectly as pp does.  The music is more of a life skill/trade or such than soccer.  But yes, we are commiting time/effort just the same.[/quote]

Why do you see it as different? Being athletic and fit is as much a life skill as music, maybe more so because someone who builds a healthy body in youth and continues to engage in athletics as an adult is likely to be healthier than someone who is more sedentary. 
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:roll: Most of the former high school "studs" are washed up and fat by age 19.[/quote]

But that's not who we're talking about, we're talking about athletes who are building the same life skills that musicians are. In my own personal experience and that of watching my kids and their friends who are adults now, most of the kids who were athletic in high school have stayed fit and participate in some kind of athletic activity as adults.

High school athletes might not engage in the same sport when they are adults, but most of the ones I have known still do something athletic. Some run, some swim, some go to the gym and take yoga and dance classes. There are lots of ways to be athletic and fit as an adult and adults who were athletic as kids tend to continue to be so.

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