Schools that don't just value athletics

Sue22
Thu, 12 Jun 2014 02:22:20 +0000

It helps to look at the schools’ official policies for afternoon activities. For instance Deerfield students are required to participate in interscholastic sports at least two seasons a year in their freshman and sophomore years. Concord Academy, on the other hand, encourages students to participate in interscholastic sports but does not require them to do so. I’m using these schools as examples only because they’ve both been mentioned multiple times on this thread. Neither is unusual in their policies.

A student who would prefer not to do a competitive sport or who would like to participate in an alternative sport such as horseback riding, archery or figure skating would find it easier to get permission at a school without a substantial sports machine. CA has neither football nor hockey. For some kids that’s a plus, for others a minus, but it does mean that the school does not have to fill those rosters.