I remember her coach speaking to me once about my daughter skipping practice for an after school finals review session. It was obvious that he and I were from different planets.
Reminds me of when the William's Sisters were being criticized for not playing enough tennis because they were college students and the tennis orgs wanted them to quit persuing their education (even though they were winning when they did play, even the major events). Now, even though they shouldn't need to work for financial reasons, they do have more options of second career since they did finish.
Or suppose that, instead of being tennis champions, they had just maybe reached the top 30 or so. Then you are 30 years old, injured and can't play at the level to earn a basic living anymore. But you quit that waste-of-time school stuff, or just studied "basket weaving." Hmmm. Now what do you do? Maybe you can get a job as a school coach?
