<p>Yes, my kids had ECs, I can’t see how taking an art class during the school day, means you can’t have any ECs at all, but I am regularly surprised by the strange way other schools run things. For example both my kids did Science Olympiad after school. It had a tiny budget, they regularly beat schools that did it as a class during the school day with huge budgets and it didn’t push out other classes. OTOH, my younger son was in two school orchestras which met during the school day and did push out time for other classes. (Though one actually met in the period before the official start of school - the only other classes that met then were gym and health.)</p>