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Sigh. It doesn’t even occur to you that once you do the basic research in the lab that you need to work for hours afterwards analyzing the data?  You’re really that dense?  Your kid spent lots of time on his or her sport. Good for them. But it isn’t some unique commitment and it isn’t intrinsically better or harder than the commitments other kids make to other activities or combinations of activities. [/quote]

Wow - so  high school students are commonly spending 25-35 hours a week during the school year doing research?  Really?  If I were running a lab, I certainly wouldn't let high school interns spend that kind of time.  The kids I know working at NIH or doing the Kirsten internships at the National Cancer Institute certainly aren't putting in close to those hours.  Which lab exactly is allowing this to happen?
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You just don’t get it. Kids routinely spend 25-35 hours a week in one extracurricular (from the lab standpoint if you go teo to three hours after school and then work in the weekend at home it’s 25 hours easily - especially if I include commuting and travel time as you do for sports) or a combination of them. What makes your kid’s commitment better and more valuable?  I actually respect what your kid did, you’re the one who denigrates the work that other kids put in [/quote]

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