- Apr 5, 2010
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I know most everyone is excited for summer, but i'm not so much. started getting texts from parents a couple o weeks ago "dd won't be at class tonight, she has a softball game" or "sorry dd will have to miss gym for softball practice" Never fails that every summer I'm having to share half of my one of my groups (8-10 year olds training new L4/5) with softball practice and games. We only get 9 hours a week of training time to hit all of the events AND stretch AND condition AND tumble. It's just not enough time to add in softball too. It's so frustrating, Especially when the kids are wanting to move into optionals, and, well...sorry, but you're choosing to miss our already limited training time to play softball...how do you seriously expect to move forward when you're barely able to maintain the skills that you have in the first place? I'm seriously lucky during softball season if 1/2 of the class trains more than 6 hours a week. It is going to SUCK when we start teaching routines next month. I can see it now. I will be teaching choreography forever because half of them will be missing. Ugh. I wish these kids would get into swimming or something in the a.m. that didn't interfere with gymnastics. And I wish I could figure out how to get their parents to favor gymnastics over softball. It's so hard when the "Susie" parents want to know why this and that and how come she can't move up and blah blah blah. I want to be like "your children are talented and small! And strong and flexible! Built for gymnastics! Not softball! Your child is going to be 5 ft nothing and like 12 poinds as a college kid. She will get plowed by the softball players. Instead of driving her to the ball park, drive her to the gym where she can maintain the skills she has + up train!
End rant. Sorry.
End rant. Sorry.