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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] Not sports, but music can get expensive too. DD is 6 and right now it's up to 5K a year, not counting cost of the instrument. And I hear SAT prep is at least $200 an hour... [/quote] Are you crazy? Spending that much in a 6 year old. Way to push your kid.[/quote] Ha. Anytime it's sports-related, people don't blink an eye at the high prices, but when it's not sports, the parents are crazy and the kid is "pushed". Double standards. Incidentally I'm not crazy. She's in a program where weekly lessons are expensive, and she has opportunities to attend recitals and master classes, which she loves to do. [/quote] I think it's the other way around, dear. The very existence of this thread proves that a fair number of very smug people thing spending money on athletics is frivolous and crazy but that there is some inherent virtue in expenditures for the arts. The reality is, getting truly *good* at any activity like this requires a lot of expense. Sure, a kid can play rec sports and not pay a lot, just as a kid can take band in middle school and only play the instrument during class.[/quote]
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