DS was attending a K-12 school that had boarding in high school only. He got heavily involved in a performing arts extracurricular in middle school. Everything was fine until he got to ninth grade as a day student. The school insisted he had to do extracurriculars on campus until 5 or 6 pm daily. Some extracurriculars required weekends as well. Although the school had a wide variety of ECs, none of them were DS’ EC that he had cultivated over the previous several years. After less than one semester of staying at school until 6pm, then driving to his EC 45 miles away for several hours of practice almost daily, he was applying as a boarder to other BS that did have his extracurricular on campus. He was accepted to 2 and is now at a school that specializes in performing arts.
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