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Originally Posted by jsenter
The children at OSSM are immersed in learning 24/7. I don't feel that's very healthy emotionally. These children need lives outside of academics, and OSSM doesn't offer much room for that. I know several students that go to OSSM and their life is constant studying. They have time for little else. There's more to life than that.
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Exaggerated.
I'm not going to sit here and say that OSSM breeds perfectly well-rounded individuals because it doesn't. That's not the idea. You're not going to get All-American Tommy Joe Quarterbacks out of OSSM with high ACTs and All-State atheltic performance. What you get are kids that have been allowed to learn at the accelerated pace at which they are capable.
The school provides an environment with mandatory physical education, fine arts courses, and community service hours. One could even argue that these students are MORE well-rounded than those that go to a normal high school where they take blow-off arts classes (if they are even offered or required) and do zero community involvement.
Just because it's not for everybody doesn't mean it's not for anybody. I guarantee if you take a poor, yet very bright and curious, student from Gotebo and ask them if they'd like to go to a school where they will be fed all the information they can handle, will be safe, paid attention to, live with other students just like them, and have your own path to almost literally choose your college and earn scholarships VERSUS staying in Gotebo and good luck on the rest, that student will likey choose OSSM.
OSSM is more Hogwarts than prison.