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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At our Big 3, the academically strongest students tend to be new 9th graders (unless they’re athletic recruits). I have yet to come across an athletic recruit who was also a top student academically. The recruits tend to be average students, at best. [/quote]

Not my kid and what a jealous thing to say. Athletes tend to be excellent students because they have incredible focus and avoid a lot of nonsense.[/quote]

DP. Jealous of what? 🤣 
A hit dog will holler! At my children’s Big 3, the vast majority of athletic RECRUITS are mediocre to average students. It’s a relatively small school, so this isn’t a state secret. Obviously, not every single athletic recruit is a terrible student, but the majority at THIS school aren’t great.  
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I don’t believe you and yes you are jealous because only a jealous person would say such things. I know this world and the athletics are very focused and don’t party and basically train and finish class work and then prioritize sleep. Also hope you are not being racist because many top athletes of color are downgraded as not intellectual. Hint Travis Hunter just graduated college with a 4.0[/quote]

Your projection is a confession. You’re triggered by my post, but it has nothing to do with me. 
 
Most of the athletic recruits at MY children’s very academically focused high school end up attending Division 1 schools for their sport. Those schools are usually not very difficult to gain admission to for an average student at MY children’s school (eg, Kentucky, Bama, GMU, St. John’s, etc). My children are excellent students so those universities are of zero interest. I’m certainly not jealous of anyone who devotes that much time to a sport, and then ends up at a school a non-athlete can gain admission to with very little effort. Only a handful of the students I know are Ivy+ recruits, and I’m still not jealous of them. Good for them! [/quote]

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