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[quote=Anonymous]My own school built intra-mural athletics/sports into the school day schedule, which started a bit after 8am and ended at 4pm.  The only kids who stayed after 4pm were on the various (optional, but no one was cut) JV or V sports teams during that sport’s season.  The school had challenging content-filled academics, was top-1 in a its (non-DC) metro, with top-10 college admits and top-20 matriculations as strong as any of the “big 3” here.  The school’s lax team was a feeder to several Ivys (and then to Wall St jobs), and that helped get a small number of extra kids into Ivys in a typical year.  Activities such as debate, model UN, or language-specific clubs also fit into the standard school day (i.e., ending at 4pm).

I am fine with the notion of requiring participation in some sort of physical activity and/or other clubs/ECs, but I know from experience that such a requirement need not require students to stay late at school for 2 or 3 seasons of the school year.  So my gripe with several local schools is not the activity requirement, but instead with their _choice_ to schedule it in a way that keeps kids at school much longer than is really necessary.  The schedules the schools have is absolutely under their control and I wish they would not choose to make most students stay late for most (or all) of the school year.

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