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Participation in club activities (sports or otherwise) is basically mandatory in junior and senior high school. Elementary kids often do go straight home and t
by sdrothrock 10y ago
Participation in club activities (sports or otherwise) is basically mandatory in junior and senior high school.
Elementary kids often do go straight home and then play with friends or waste time, but once you're in junior high, you're basically considered a young adult and expected to have responsibilities.
Many clubs will take up MORE time than homework, with the sports clubs often having an hour or two of practice before school with the same again after school, plus most of Saturday and sometimes half of Sunday.
Generally when students get together, the last thing they want to do is play sports since they're doing that pretty much every day of the week!
- teekert 10y agoAnything mandatory outside of the pretty long school hours we already have seems like a bad idea to me. Making sport mandatory, ugh, what a perfect way to get kids to dislike it as early on in life as possible.
- sdrothrock 10y agoSchool hours aren't that long here; they're shorter than mine were in the US!
- paulryanrogers 10y ago> Participation in club activities (sports or otherwise) is basically mandatory in junior and senior high school. Not in my experience. For some parents and communities maybe, but certainly not all.