gymmommy123
Proud Parent
I'm just so frustrated right now. Maybe someone can give me perspective, or insight on what to do, but please try not to be mean, as I'm upset enough. My daughter moved to a new gym last January. She was supposed to come straight over as a new level 3 (they told me this BEFORE we moved), but a week after we moved gyms, they asked that she compete old 3 for 2 or 3 meets for experience. She had 2 meets, they said she wasn't scoring high enough, and needed to repeat at new level 2 again. Well, she did almost NO uptraining for 8 months, did endless level 2 routines (which became quite boring 9 hrs a week I must say), gave her 3 meets to compete at, at which, she medalled almost every event, took top 5 or 6 AA, and then at state, took 1st in bars and 4th AA. She has all her level 3 skills, and I thought surely now they'd move her up. They told me they want her to compete level 2 AGAIN, for an ENTIRE year. The whole time, they keep bringing in new little 4 and 5 yr olds and spending all their time teaching them handstands and cartwheels, and she is just bored out of her mind. This is a child who LOVES gymnastics, but when I asked her if she'd rather repeat level 2 for a whole year or quit, she said she'd rather quit. She thrives on challenge, but they never give her any opportunity to do so. She's been at a "developmental" level now for 4 years between her old gym and now this new one. We turned down her level 3 team invitation at her old gym to move to this great "new" gym closer to our house, and I feel like I made such an awful mistake. She's crushed, I'm crushed, my husband is crushed. I feel like I'm taking away the sport she adores, because I screwed up and we have no other options. Her old gym won't let her come back, even though we left on great terms. What do I do? Why on earth would they make her stay back at level 2 another entire year? They work no new skills, so we'd literally be watching her bored silly for an entire year. I feel sick about it all. I honestly think she has a moderate level of talent, she was always at the top of her group at her last gym and picked up new skills easily. She will be 7 y/o next week and I don't think she's "too young" anymore to compete level 3. Am I being a CGM to think she should move up?