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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DS has 3 friends who started at a Big 3 school in 9th this year.  I have spoken with all the parents and not one of them has mentioned the academics at the school.  ALL of them spoke at length about sports.  About how little Jimmy had practice 4 days a week after school until 7pm and about how the weekends were now completely taken up with sports related activities.  These were for 3 different sports, mind you.  I think sports are fantastic and really create a social circle for kids but if they really do take up this much time I can see why kids have to stay up late to get the work done and it may seem like the kids have mountains of work when they may only have a few hours.[/quote]

And this is the reason I stop DD from playing school sports (practice every day)  to focus on just club, which may practice twice a week with 1 to 2 games on the weekends.  However there are kids like some of her friends that can do it all and maintain a 4.0 or close to it. Those kids are naturally brilliant and have excellent time management skills.  Unfortunately my child doesn't...

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