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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]By the time the kids get home, eat, shower, it's 7pm. If you have 3 hours of homework a night, there's not a ton of give in that schedule and certainly not if you wanted to do something else.  [/quote]

The schools want your kid’s life to be within the school community.  No, you can’t really do something else on weeknights.  If you have an outside activity, then you need to plan ahead with homework.  It’s feature not bug and if you can’t understand that then you don’t appreciate what it is to be part of these schools.

Also, if some kids had all these extra hours to do the work that might have a chilling effect on athletic participation among kids who would otherwise want to play but are worried their grades will suffer relative to peers.  And athletics are a wonderful way to build bonds with classmates (even if you aren’t great) and wonderful for mental and physical health.[/quote]

Nonsense. All of these schools have athletes who will be recruited- those are some of their best looking college admits. Those kids all have to play club year round and the schools know it [/quote]

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