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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You never want to be the dumbest kid in the class.  The view that your kid didn’t pull top scores or grades because they spent time playing their sport is wrong.  The kids who did get the top grades and test scores, and were not playing sports, were doing other things - art, music, tech, whatever.  They just are smarter.

That’s fine.  Go to a college where your kid’s academics are at least in the middle of the pack.  It is hard enough to play a sport and do okay academically in college when you are not the dumb one.

Even at an academic D3 college, the coach does not care about your kid’s grades other than they have to be good enough that the coach never hears anything about them.  The coach does not give a rip if your kid has a test or a paper due.  Practice is at X time, and  your kid better be there.  It’s not high school.  You can’t call and tell the coach Billy has to study.  
It is - always - sink or swim.  Most kids sink.  
Kids who are in over their heads academically to begin with are almost always going to sink.

Think I’m wrong?  Do this.  Go to the team website for the high academic school you’re thinking your kid wants to get into.  Look at last years team.  How many seniors are on it?  Go back 4 years and look at that team.  How many freshmen?  If 50% survived until senior year that’s very good.  Very often it’s less.  Injuries can happen.  Kids turning out not to be good enough can happen - a lot, and kids flunking out.

Don’t start off underwater.  Playing a sport is a huge time commitment.  In season it’s easily 40 hours a week plus travel.  Off season it’s 20 hours.

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You are clearly extremely triggered by the idea of a smart kid not necessarily prioritizing test scores in high school but having no trouble keeping up with the alleged rigor of the majority of elite University courses.  And similar to the other poster on this thread, my kid doesn’t prioritize sports OVER academics -he simply doesn’t prioritize academics at all.  (i.e. most people aren’t claiming the test scores aren’t high because of the sports). Is it my ideal?  If course not, but he is who he is.

You remind me, ironically, of the type of sports parents who pay for private coaching from the age of five or so, always insist your kid has to be on the most “elite” teams, and then throw temper tantrums when some naturally athletic kid who doesn’t know a bat from a ball picks up the sport in high school and is just as good if not better than your highly trained kid.[/quote]

So this. I can’t stand parents like this. And they often seem to be the ones who wrangle for their dc to be ‘team captain’ or similar- seemingly for the resume, not for any true desire to help others or bc they’re great athletes. [/quote]

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