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gymmom27
Has anyone's daughter been put into the Xcel track without being told?
My daughter is 9 and was told she was moving up to the Bronze level of team. We were expecting level 3 or 4 and since I had never heard of Bronze I started researching and learned about Xcel. I think the idea of the program is great, what I'm not happy with is the way the gym approached it. They put her into the Xcel track at the pre-team level but didn't tell us, we were only told she was moving to pre-team. When I called the gym to ask about the Xcel program last week I was told that it was their "B team and JO is the A team" and to think of it "as the major leagues vs the minor leagues, the major leagues being JO." When I asked why we weren't given a choice in the two tracks I was told that because my daughter moved to pre-team at 8 she missed the cut-off for the JO path. Apparently in our gym you have to move to pre-team by the time you're 7.
My concern is the way they approach JO vs Xcel. If my daughter decides to go Xcel that's fine, but I wish it had been a choice we were aware of when the decision was made. There are other smaller gyms in the area that will take a 9 year old for L3 or L4 if we want to go the JO route. Are most gyms like our current gym or is it unusual to be automatically placed in one track or another?
My daughter is 9 and was told she was moving up to the Bronze level of team. We were expecting level 3 or 4 and since I had never heard of Bronze I started researching and learned about Xcel. I think the idea of the program is great, what I'm not happy with is the way the gym approached it. They put her into the Xcel track at the pre-team level but didn't tell us, we were only told she was moving to pre-team. When I called the gym to ask about the Xcel program last week I was told that it was their "B team and JO is the A team" and to think of it "as the major leagues vs the minor leagues, the major leagues being JO." When I asked why we weren't given a choice in the two tracks I was told that because my daughter moved to pre-team at 8 she missed the cut-off for the JO path. Apparently in our gym you have to move to pre-team by the time you're 7.
My concern is the way they approach JO vs Xcel. If my daughter decides to go Xcel that's fine, but I wish it had been a choice we were aware of when the decision was made. There are other smaller gyms in the area that will take a 9 year old for L3 or L4 if we want to go the JO route. Are most gyms like our current gym or is it unusual to be automatically placed in one track or another?