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As a senior in High School, I have been through many teachers year after year. I run for Cross Country, Indoor Track, and Track. With Indoor Track starting in a few days, we get to leave school early a lot. From the teachers, some are cool with it and other hate it. For example, one of my teachers complained that the girls field hockey team left school at 1:00 for their sectional game (school ends at 2:30). Also, the football, soccer, and other teams all get to leave school early. I am not against leaving school early and actually love leaving school 30 minutes-1 hour early to go to my race/meet, but I am biased. What do the posters here think about leaving school early for sports events?
Just remember that the people you will be competing against for a spot in college or for a job probably didn't leave school early, and therefore might just take your place. As long as you're good with that, and don't complain, go for it.
Just remember that the people you will be competing against for a spot in college or for a job probably didn't leave school early, and therefore might just take your place. As long as you're good with that, and don't complain, go for it.
How would a college know?
The athletes I know had to keep up with the work and made good grades.
Colleges care about the course work, not the attendance.
I don't get the job thing either...
if the athlete misses last period because of their sporting event, they don't have time for a job. They are at their event.
All I'm saying is that by leaving early all the time, there is a good chance that your grades may not be on the same level as someone who stayed in school all day every day. If you're good enough to get the same grades regardless of attendance, more power to you. But there will most likely come a point in time when it will make a difference, and someone else may get that spot that you want.
I think it's weird. I was a multisport high school athlete, and we never cut school to play. We would play in the evening or do our meets on the weekends.
For some reason 2 of my 4 years in HS, they moved the school to a difference conference, We were the further school from all the other, all were 45-60 min away, for "Day Light" games we had to leave early (and our classes started at 7:10am-250pm) we would leave before end of the last period, or two periods back if it was the far/far away school.
It did effect our grades, i'm sure, on the flip side, we would not get back to school till 8p or so, getting caught in rush hour traffic. Night games were even worse, we would not get home to close to midnight, and have to be back @ school for 7:10 the next morning. No time to do any homework, could not do it on the bus, to dark, to tired, to much movement.
After 1st year in the new sport conference the school got us moved to a different one, but we still had to do the 2nd year in it, before we could move to a group of closer schools for my senior year. Then we did not have to leave "early" since we got out so early anyway.
With all the consolidation of schools over the last 30 years, schools are further apart. In our conference, we had to travel to schools up to two hours away. Night games meant the kids didn't get home until after midnight. Most took their books with them and worked homework on the bus ride.
If you're a good student, leaving early on some sports days won't hurt your learning. Rather than hurt your chances at college, it will probably help because as an athlete you can check more boxes for being well rounded. Like someone else mentioned, a lot of the kids on the teams are the better students. Most of DD's soccer team was also honor roll. Those who weren't wouldn't have been anyway.
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