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I hear what you're saying and I tend to agree. I can't help but notice a huge parallel to my days in high school marching band. The state (Texas) imposed a limi

I hear what you're saying and I tend to agree. I can't help but notice a huge parallel to my days in high school marching band. The state (Texas) imposed a limit on how many hours a school band could practice that our school mostly respected. However, one of our rivals did about double the allowed max by having "optional" practices. Yeah, you guessed it. Only those that showed up to all the optional practices got to march, everyone else was stuck on the sidelines. Granted, it worked...This school's band was always awesome due to so many extra hours and handedly beat us and everyone else in competitions. :-(

gnosis 16y ago
Interesting story. But I wonder about the rest of these kids' lives. Did their putting in double the amount of time practicing affect their performance on the rest of their schoolwork? Were they more stressed out, and did that affect their health? Were their social lives adversely affected? If they were interviewed now, would they say that everything they sacrificed to win that competition was worth it?