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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes
 Sports is the very last place in public school where students are actually expected to adhere to decent values like honoring your commitments to something other than your own self.
You admit practice is only 2 hours out of the day. So the test and tutors couldn't be scheduled for any of the other 22 hours? 
My kids have played intense sports and managed to do makeup tests before school, during lunch or free periods and doctors appointments etc during other hours.
I was thrilled to have them get a real life understanding of the commitments and sacrifices that are needed to excel in other areas of life.
Keep your meddling, snowflake coddling Karen hands off sports culture. The meddling has ruined every other aspect of public school. 
Please and thanks.[/quote]

Wow.  So my kid who tried out for a competitive sports team, got selected against the odds, and is a JV non starter is not welcome on the team if [b]I value his academics over his sport[/b]?  I love that he tried out.  Love that he gets to play for his school.   Love that it teaches him discipline, communication, and time management along with being good for him to stay physically active.  But 2 hours every day is a lot and [b]if something academic conflicts[/b], I would absolutely make him pay attention to school first. [/quote]

99.9% of the time, it's not "something academic" that conflicts.    In the examples given by the OP, the main "conflict" was the tutor wanted to reschedule.   That did not need to happen during soccer practice, find another time.  That is not an "academic conflict."  Students should be able to learn just during regular class time, and getting a tutor is an extreme situation.  If a student is doing so poorly in a class that they need a tutor, they should not have tried out for the soccer team in the first place.

Another example was a DIFFERENT sport.   Again, not an "academic conflict."

A different poster mentioned that "family travel" should take priority over practice.

If the coach is insisting that players ditch their 10 am math class to come to practice, that's a valid "academic conflict."[/quote]

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