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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] My family member has kids who only went to HS half-days to participate in their high level sport which I thought was insane. [/quote]
How is it legal? Why did the school allow it? What about the subjects that take place in the second half?[/quote]

Plenty of online schoolers starting in middle school to play  sport almost full time [/quote]

It’s another way for people to make money off parents who believe their kids will be superstars. Open only to the rich. 
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The parents recognize this and don’t put them through the torture of a mundane high school experience.   [/quote] Wouldn't these be the students who need school's academics the most?

Imagine if a child who was accomplished in math but behind physically and in English, History, etc went to a special school with limited PE, English, History, etc.[/quote]

Luckily it’s becoming more common knowledge that there are many types of intelligence and most of us have a type that is stronger than others.  It used to be math, science, language , history and that was it.  Very limited.   Now the kids who are lucky enough to have their parents recognize their strengths and don’t just put them on the standard path are more successful.

The students who have top AP courses have linguistic and logical-mathematics strengths.  A naturally gifted athlete has high Bodily-Kinaesthetic Intelligence.   Dancers, along with other careers have excellent Visual-Spatial Intelligence and Bodily-Kinaeshetic intelligence.  This is why book smart kids might go to a private school, athletic kids might go to a school that specializes in a specific sport and dancers might go to a boarding school focusing on dance.

It’s a little bit like trade schools.  They have these strengths and they are learning to use them.

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