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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To the posters suggesting MS kids don't need ANY ECs...here's something to think about.  In addition to making kids more well-rounded, allowing them to be part of a team, getting them active and fit, providing creative and artistic outlets, fostering healthy competition, instilling grit, nourishing a passion, and on and on, ECs at this age lead to diversified, multiple friend groups!  It's so important that MS kids don't just have one group of friends. Recipe for disaster!  Literally ZERO ECs at the middle school age is, in fact, under-scheduled in my book.  Even with like one sport and one something else a season, there is plenty of time in a week for MS to spend chilling out with friends.

Also, there won't even be any kids to "hang" out with in the after-school hours because all the other kids will be doing ECs.  [/quote]

If there are never any kids to hang out with though, doesn't that sound like a sign of kids are too busy and overscheduled? Some activities fine, but when kids are never around that's not a good thing imo.[/quote]

Eh, I was trying to say that these idyllic notions of a bunch of 7th graders coming home and all wondering over to each others houses to play after school won't end up realizing.  Most kids have a few activities and a few free days, but inevitably you'll find that your kids' free days don't match up with the free days of X kid down the street they like to play with.  Doesn't mean that either kid is over-scheduled, it just doesn't work out like you are envisioning  What does happen is a group of kids ask their parents if they can hang out at someone's house after soccer practice or after art club meets, etc.  Or a group gets together and hangs out after school at carpooling parent's house before its time to be driven to dance team...blah blah, stuff like that.  Plenty of hanging out, really.  [/quote]

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