We've never done "privates" for our daughter. However, when she was first coming back into gymnastics [after about six months off completely] it was hard to really know where to put her. She had competed one L7 meet and was aggressively uptraining L8/L9 skills right before she took the time off but was clearly not ready to hop right back in with any of those levels. Our HC worked with her independently in the morning [while they had some pre school and rec classes going on in the background and around them] until he felt she was ready to train with the L7/L8 girls. At that point she moved to their group and worked with him only if he happened to be working with their group at training [which he does do some although he mostly works with the L9/L10 kids]. We started paying just regular L7 tuition when she walked back into the gym. We started paying L8 tuition at the beginning of fall session and are paying that now. We never paid anything extra for him to work with her and it was just introduced matter of factly as well I think this is what we should do. I'm not sure if it created "gym drama". I try to just ignore that and from what I read on the forum our gym is amazingly low drama in comparison anyway. I actually think a lot of parents had no idea he was working with her which probably reduced things.
Now she is training L9/10 on bars and vault and still technically in the floor and beam L8 groups. The L9/L10 bars and vault groups typically do have a lot of 1:1 time with the HC for direct skills work [they work at conditioning and strength stations independently or in small groups in between their turns with HC]. So from this thread it sounds like all of their training is sort of a group "private". I will say that one L7 mom in particular does have her nose a little out of joint about her working with the L9/L10 and is always commenting on that. Everyone else seems to have better things to think about. I think her real issue is not our daughter in the L9/L10 group but that her daughter was kept at L7 when at least her mother was sure she would be scoring out and moving to L8. She isn't happy about that so she is looking for examples of favoritism where they aren't really there.
Now she is training L9/10 on bars and vault and still technically in the floor and beam L8 groups. The L9/L10 bars and vault groups typically do have a lot of 1:1 time with the HC for direct skills work [they work at conditioning and strength stations independently or in small groups in between their turns with HC]. So from this thread it sounds like all of their training is sort of a group "private". I will say that one L7 mom in particular does have her nose a little out of joint about her working with the L9/L10 and is always commenting on that. Everyone else seems to have better things to think about. I think her real issue is not our daughter in the L9/L10 group but that her daughter was kept at L7 when at least her mother was sure she would be scoring out and moving to L8. She isn't happy about that so she is looking for examples of favoritism where they aren't really there.