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[quote=Anonymous][quote]No. Actually that's not my question. I'm trying to set up a choice to see what people value more: success in the classroom or success on the playing field.

Well, that's really setting up a straw man, isn't it? [/quote]

Np here.

No, it's really not setting up a straw man.   There are plenty of private high school students who are either / or (and yes, a handful who are both, but we're setting them aside for this sub-topic).

I don't want to derail the thread by naming names or schools, but if I -- just one person -- personally know of several current high school athletes who are middling-to-C-minus students [i]even WITH the help of $600 a month tutoring [/i] .... this cannot be a rare situation.

Or possibly we are quibbling about the definition of ^^^ "a success in the classroom."  To me, than means ~ top 25% at a minimum.  It does not mean "barely getting mostly Cs and a few low Bs with the help of a heavy lifting tutor."  That is not a "success in the classroom" to me.  That's a struggling, middling student.   [/quote]

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