<p>It’s true. My son dropped his winter sport this year, and the grades have improved. The team routinely gets home at 10 p.m. on school nights, in need of dinner, a shower, and having done very little homework. He would have been out like that two nights before midterms, and was last year. The coach gives them a 90 minute study hall before events, but for S the homework has taken 3-4 hours per night since second grade. A lot of people don’t get it. We allowed him to do the sport, and did not insist that he quit, but it was clearly too much for him. As he said, “they talk about managing your time, but you can’t manage your time when you don’t have any.”</p>