Parents Year round school and summer gym schedule?

[gymhorsemom]

My DD goes to a year round school -they get about 7 weeks off for summer. Our gym (as well as the other gyms in the area) has a 9 week summer schedule -so it starts 2 weeks before DD gets out of school for the summer. It's not a problem this year as DD's practice starts after school hours -but in future years practice for her could be entirely during school hours for the 2 weeks. Does anyone deal with this and what have you done? It seems like a lot to miss -first 2 weeks of summer practice, no? I definitely believe in reinforcing the message that school is more important than gym so I wouldn't want to take her out of school for gym -at least not much. How have others dealt with this?

 

[MILgymFAM]

My DDs gym switched to a day schedule for summer. There is one girl in her group who is still in school for two more weeks. The HC kept a single, combined level evening practice for team girls who can't make days. It's from L4-10, and has about 6 girls in it. Maybe ask if there is an alternative group your DD could join for those two weeks?

 

[gymgal]

If this is a school that other gymnasts regularly attend, I am sure the HC has a plan. If yours will be the first in this dilemma, just talk with the coach a few months before summer session next year to work out an arrangement. They will probably have her join the next highest afternoon group for those two weeks.

 

[bookworm]

Forgive my ignorance, but with " 7 weeks off in the summer" , what makes it a "year round school"? We get 8 weeks off in summer and aren't considered year round..

 

[mom2newgymnast]

Forgive my ignorance, but with " 7 weeks off in the summer" , what makes it a "year round school"? We get 8 weeks off in summer and aren't considered year round..

I was curious about this too. My dd goes to a year round school, but they are very common here and the gyms have had to adapt to their schedule. We have multi track year round where each track goes approximately 9 weeks and then gets 3-4 weeks off. The weeks of the 4th of July and Christmas are the only 2 weeks that every track is tracked out. So the gyms can't have summer practices during the school day really or they would have a lot of parents complaining I imagine. I would ask your gym how they handle gymnasts with your schedule..

 

[gymhorsemom]

Forgive my ignorance, but with " 7 weeks off in the summer" , what makes it a "year round school"? We get 8 weeks off in summer and aren't considered year round..

I don't know why it is considered year round -but it truly is! All I can say is that most of the schools around here have 11 weeks off for summer and many activities (such as the gyms) have a summer schedule that starts about 2 weeks before we are out and finishes right when we go back -so in our area at least, our schedule is unusual.

 

[OzZee]

Forgive my ignorance, but with " 7 weeks off in the summer" , what makes it a "year round school"? We get 8 weeks off in summer and aren't considered year round..

Haha made me laugh. We get less than 6 weeks for summer and that includes Christmas and new year!

 

[Iwannabemargo]

me too OzZee, 6 weeks summer break here too

 

[gymgal]

most traditional schools in the US have 10-12 weeks off in the summer. In the past 20 years, there have been more school districts go to either year round (9wks on, 3 wks off all year round) or modified traditional (usually 9 weeks in, 3 weeks out and 6-7 wk break in the summer). But most districts still use a regular traditional schedule (aug/sep-may/june with a 2wk Christmas break, and 1-2 one week breaks sometime between feb and april).