- Oct 3, 2011
- 13
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Okay so there is a gym mom who every year gives "goodie bags" to only the gymnasts who qualify to state. But I notice she only does this when her daughter makes it, which has been the past 2 years. These bags have very basic things like socks, hair ties, candy, etc... Anyway maybe it is just me but I find this incredibly annoying because she is treating the team like individuals and is leaving the girls who did not qualify for state out. Everyone in the gym works really hard (my coach has actually told me on several occasions my daughter is the hardest worker on the team
) and come the end of the season if they don't get the qualifying score it is devastating to them. My daughter who was incredibly close to making it, (only .2 away to be exact) was left out while her 8 other teammates qualified in at least one meet this season. She told me when that mom handed out the bags she felt really bad and it was just "another reminder that she didn't make it to state". That broke my heart to hear. I just don't understand why that mom couldn't have just given everyone on the team a goodie bag as a celebration for their hard work at the end of the season and maybe just throw in something extra for the ones who did qualify? This really bothered me! Maybe I'm overreacting but I do know if I would have given out bags myself I would have given them out to all the girls on team. I would have felt horrible leaving just 1 or 2 girls out! Everyone wants to feel included instead of feeling left out. I do know the mom has been talked to in the past about this but she obviously didn't take the suggestion to hand out these bags to the entire team seriously. What do you think, am I overreacting?
