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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem is that a single-minded focus on sports does not develop a "broad background."  How many kids who spend 2-3 hours on sports every day have the energy to read anything other than what is minimally required for school?  [/quote]

School 8-3, sports 3-6, homework 6-9

Ummm - yea - they actually do have the time.[/quote]

This. It's not "either/or" like in some of the hypotheticals above. Although it's more like "homework 8-12" because lots of high school kids get very little sleep. If the only way a kid can get good grades and high SATs is to give up athletics and exercise -- then perhaps that kid is in a school that's too challenging. With good time management skills, your kid gets to run off energy and return to the desk at home to study.

The most selective colleges are not making an either/or decision either. The top colleges can get both in the same kid. We know several recruits to DC's ivy (DC was not a recruit). These kids are NMFs and magnet kids. They are miles away from the straight-C kid that one poster wants us to think is the only option for athletes. [/quote]

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