Please help! I don't know what is best!

[gymdog]

I wouldn't say the homeschool program is just for those pursuring the elite path. There are some girls who do it that I can't imagine they would think they were on an elite path (ex. an 11 year old Lv 4). But yes there are gymnasts that are attempting to go the elite path. At one point there were 4 girls. Now there is just one. 3 of them made Hopes and one made junior international. The junior and 2 of the hopes left for a gym nearby that has a sizable elite program. So there is one Hopes girls left.

The remainder of the morning group is made up of a few girls from each level.

In DD's case, we homeschool already. I'm thinking about it because it would be less hours than if she went in the evening. I would love to have free evenings. There are 2 coaches with about 10 girls. One of DD's teammates is already on board, so there would be at least 2 other girls at her level. I wouldn't even consider it if there weren't girls at her ability level. The best part is that she could uptrain and do level 4 next fall season. I really want her to compete level 4. I have plenty of time to think about it so I'm just not going to worry about it right now.

That makes more sense. By morning program I was thinking it was one of those programs where they did homeschool through the gym, which didn't really make sense to me for JO gymnasts. I guess if a gym has a larger base of gymnasts who homeschool anyway it would be a different case, I've just never personally seen that (homeschooling isn't big here, I guess).

 

[gymcoach34]

It sounds as the head coach is starting a new group. If you can do it, I would give it a try, since it sounds like this coach has had some success. I would make sure though that the coach is not talking about the am workouts being in addition to her L4 hours.

 

[NGL780309]

That makes more sense. By morning program I was thinking it was one of those programs where they did homeschool through the gym, which didn't really make sense to me for JO gymnasts. I guess if a gym has a larger base of gymnasts who homeschool anyway it would be a different case, I've just never personally seen that (homeschooling isn't big here, I guess).

Some of them are homeschooling just for gymnastics, but several of the families have always homeschooled before gym was even in the picture and they homeschool all their kids. And no there is no school at the gym, you just homeschool on your own.

 

[NGL780309]

It sounds as the head coach is starting a new group. If you can do it, I would give it a try, since it sounds like this coach has had some success. I would make sure though that the coach is not talking about the am workouts being in addition to her L4 hours.

The morning work-outs can be in addition to the evening hours if you want it that way. For me, that's too much. There are some crazy people who bring their kids to both. It's only 9 hours in the morning, so I understand for the upper levels that they need more, but not at the lower levels. She'd go MWF morning and then have the option of going Tues, Wed, Friday evening and Saturday morning. I might let her do the 3 morning practices and then Saturday morning. That would be 12.5 hours which to me is still okay. I'm just going to not think about it until summer is closer. It's not like I have to know right now. I do believe the head coach got wind of people not being happy and wanted to let us know there were other options so we wouldn't leave.