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[quote=Anonymous]For one, participation in sports is self selecting and optional.  And only the most motivated and talented kids are selected for travel teams etc.  If parents aren't happy with the way the team or league is working, they can switch.  Coaches and league administrators are motivated to keep parents happy.

Public schools are not self selecting, and schools have no motivating factor to keep kids in the system.  The majority are stuck in the system without any options.  So if you have a motivated, academically focused child, sooner or later they will be turned off and bored by public school.  FWIW, I do not have super athletic kids, and keep them active in rec leagues (since there is barely any recess or PE in public school at the ES and MS levels).  I'm the PP who is pulling my GT/LD out of public because I'm lucky enough to have private as an option, and I will not let him founder in public school.

And thank you to the poster who brought up the fact that the US does well in the Olympics, but consistently ranks well below other industrialized countries in education.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/12/03/248329823/u-s-high-school-students-slide-in-math-reading-science[/quote]

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