<p>Longhaul, in general I agree with you, I think kids who do the fast paced ___ (insert math or science) here, miss out on the best that CTY has to offer, but that didn’t stop my son from doing one his third year. By then he was on the old end, and like marite’s son was ready to get a jump on the regular high school curriculum. (We also have really lousy chem teachers at the high school.) I’d have been happy if he’d stretched himself to do something more outside his comfort zone, he wasn’t willing, but I thought that some of the classes did more stretching than I would have expected.</p>
<p>As for doing non-academic things that would be S2, he did regular camp, and music camps instead.</p>