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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My daughter has made the team for a sport that she has been doing for many years. She currently does 4 hours of practice a week right now. Practice will be 3 days a week for 3 hours at a time (Mon, Tues, Thursday from 5-8.) She is only 9, currently in 3rd grade. This would be for next school year. Skipping practice is highly discouraged plus travel competitions. This is going to put a strain on our family, miss family dinners, etc. She really wants to do it, and I am actually discouraging it - this isn't a parent living through their kid.

Would you let your kid do it for something they have worked very hard for? [/quote]

Are most of the kids on the team homeschooled or online schooled? How is this schedule feasible for a child who goes to a traditional school?[/quote]

School 8-3:30, gymnastics 5-8. What part are you missing?[/quote]

The part where you give your kid a d*mn break. You should homeschool so that your kid can practice the sport during the day when they are at their best and fit the schooling in the spaces in between. When you homeschool, you dont need to spend as much time covering subjects as a regular school does. 1 on 1 instruction goes faster.[/quote]

It's not a good idea for most competitive gymnasts to homeschool. Even good gymnasts should have space to try other things in the long term, and often, those things are facilitated through schools, such as music, theater, other sports, robotics, and the debate team.   Even though it is a grueling schedule, school and other hobbies provide balance.  If your daughter is out for 6-9 months because she has a stress fracture, which is not uncommon for tween and teen gymnastics, it's helpful that she has school and maybe some other passion project.  [/quote]

Terrible advice. Your child is not a workhorse for you to live vicariously through by making them do 100 hours a week of school and activities. If you are not smart enough to homeschool then relocate to a place that has a specialized sports academy. There's a tennis one in Fla, and a multisport one in an upscale part of Cali., and a ski racing one in New Eng. somewhere plus several others,... can't remeber their names. But those schools blend the academics with the sports practice so that a kid is not burned out. Regular 8:00-3:00 school is too draining for a kid who practices elite sports.[/quote]

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