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    Senior Letting Off Some Steam

    I'm so sorry about all of it. I'm glad you took this opportunity to express your feelings! As a mom to younger gymnasts, you "veterans" mean so much to them.
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    Who is still paying their gym fees?

    Our gym hasn't charged for April or May. If there were a financial need, we would gladly continue to pay, and we acknowledge we are fortunate to be able to do so.
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    If your gym opened Monday would you send your child?

    Do you have a time limit in mind that it's more beneficial to keep kids isolated versus exposed? I've been thinking about that, because at some point I think there's a real cost to the physical isolation, particularly for children. It's probably premature to have a formed idea of what...
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    If your gym opened Monday would you send your child?

    It sounds like we agree, except I think I am somewhat pessimistic that we will reach that degree of testing and tracing. Hopeful, but pessimistic.
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    COVID-19 / Coronavirus Gymnastics Club Reopening Steps / Process

    I commented this on another thread: The gymnast lives with the parent, rode in the car with the parent, hugged the parent goodbye. The parent doesn't have anything the gymnast doesn't have. I don't think it makes a difference if the parent enters with the gymnast, and in general I don't like the...
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    Poll Discussion (from the reopening gymnastics clubs poll)

    I'm not ok with parents not being allowed in the gym for pick up and drop off. I don't see the point either, since we can assume the gymnast lives with the parent, came in the same car as the parent, hugged the parent goodbye. The parent doesn't have anything the kid doesn't have.
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    Poll Discussion (from the reopening gymnastics clubs poll)

    This is how I'm thinking, too. If someone walks in with the virus, none of these measures are going to make much of a difference, due to the nature of the virus, and the nature of children. I don't think we have to wait for a vaccine to open gyms, but we do have to be realistic with our...
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    Poll Discussion (from the reopening gymnastics clubs poll)

    I checked two or three items. Other than staggering workout times and washing/sanitizing hands, I think most of these items are either impractical (can you really sanitize gymnastics equipment without ruining it?) or are making us feel safer rather than actually making us safer. Even taking...
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    What's your best guess at what next season will look like?

    Personally, I love the idea of training for a year, no meets. However, I know our gym's meet is booked and at least some money has exchanged hands. It will be a real hardship to not have that meet, in addition to months (years?) without receiving regular tuition from gym families, both team and rec.
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    COVID-19 / Coronavirus Gymnastics Club Reopening Steps / Process

    I really have sympathy for parents who have to consider asthma and other high-risk factors in addition to the general risk for kids. I think of that with my neighbor kids who all have asthma, and what it means for going back to school in the fall. So, to take the gym opening question one step...
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    COVID-19 / Coronavirus Gymnastics Club Reopening Steps / Process

    I've thought a lot about this, and there's no way to do gymnastics without assuming some risk. So, unless we swear off the sport for years, I think you control what you can - encouraging good hand hygiene, hopefully in conjunction with good testing/contact tracing. For the record, we no longer...
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    If your gym opened Monday would you send your child?

    I answered yes. I think something that keeps getting lost is that the expectation has never been that stay-at-home orders/social distance would eliminate the virus. It will just slow the spread so hospitals and health care facilities can be prepared. There is not going to be a miraculous day...
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    Parents Coronavirus

    Closed in VA. In our area half are closed, half are still open. I think they will all be closed down by the end of the week.
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    WAG More 6's, less 5's

    This has been the trend in our area for a while, but now this year it seems like there is an uptick in 5's for the first time since they reconfigured the levels.
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    Parents Beam

    My girls have a pretty tough coach. Her standards are high for behavior and effort. I have never heard her yell, and I've never heard stories of her yelling. She's particularly gentle at a meet where nerves are already high, and our gym's philosophy is that time is for encouragement because the...
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