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Why place hockey over school?
Guest:
I am struggling to understand the recent push to have your kid drop out of traditional school and I assume pursue a hockey career?
How many 2012 - 2008 kids in the mid atlantic region have dropped out of traditional school?
We have what 3 soon to be 4 academies offering "online" schooling?
Do parents really think their kids are that special that requires additional training or do they just not value the educational system any more?
Guest:
These kids and parents are getting really bad advice. The fact is that there are just not enough spots for good players to go after high school. A lot of these kids will end up going to online school and playing AAA through 18U. They will then go to juniors for a few years to end up playing club hockey (which is good hockey and not easy to make the better teams). The kids will then have missed out on a bunch of social development from school and will be 20+ year old freshman on a college club team. Unless you are going to a prep school that has good academics, you are wasting your time IMO. The kids need the social development. If I was looking for hockey players to play for my team, I would not want to online school kids who have not had much of a social life over the kids who went to traditional high school and played AAA. There are not enough D1 and D3 teams to take on all of these kids and with the new CHL rule, there will be even less spots. I know it is hard to make that decision and these hockey coaches and online schools promise things that just will not happen. If the kid is great, he will make it. If your kid is good enough to play D1, he probably will not make it. Let your kid be a kid and also love hockey. I am saying he because girls hockey is totally different.
Guest:
My oldest played hockey until this year and decided he wanted to focus only on his lacrosse. He was good and I hope he gets back into it because I'd sign him up for an academy in a heartbeat. Public schools are trash today compared to when I was a kid and I wouldn't send my kids to a public school today if you paid me. Don't tell me "but the socialization" either. I'd rather my kids learn online in half the time they'd spend sitting next to the purple haired furry in the class telling everyone what their pronouns are, while the teacher embarrasses the normal kids who just want to be taught how to do math. I think these "academies" are actually the future of schooling. Whether it's a science focused academy, or a hockey focused academy, it's somewhere for kids to go and spend time with friends and focus on what they want to focus on, while getting a fully customized curriculum delivered online. AI will take over the delivery of the curriculum within a few years and make online learning the only way to learn, eliminating hours of wasted time every day. If my kid wanted to spend time in a place learning how to become a better athlete, I'd let him do it just because I'd know it's infinitely better than the hours of his time the public school would waste every day teaching him how to address the they/thems in his class.
Guest:
Curious question. What happens when the purple haired furry who wants you to their correct pronouns matriculates over to the science academy?
Did you read what you wrote before you posted it? I'm betting that you didn't; otherwise you would have noticed how ignorant you sound.
This is coming from myself who has a TON of criticism for the public school system in the US. Having said all of that, the public school system needs a serious shake-up, but transitioning having kids do online classes en masse is recipe to make the US even dumber than we already are(if that is truly possible).
Guest:
Fear not and have no concern, concerned adults.... As the famous Judge Smails once said, "That's ok Spalding, the world needs ditch diggers, too..."
Long-term, you will be very happy you kept your kid in school.
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