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In some cases your right thier should be provisions and thier should be better ways for gyms to phrase it.
1. Alternates are the bench do not see the point to alternates a parent is paying money for them to compete so if your a gym that deos this thats bad business because we all know you advertise no skills required everyone makes a team. So can we say false advertisement.
2. Grades are between the child and the parent. If they are not making the grades that will be up to the parent to decide what they do. Understandably they have signed a contract till the end of the year and as an adult they have the responsibilty for thier commitment to the team and the gym.
3. uniform modications parents by it they basically own it themselves.
4. Good citizenship some people have their kids try this to keep them out of trouble and try a new things this is a great sports and interest boys and girls and coaches are to be the role model.
Any gym can have a good program with a good contract it is all up to the coaches thier are gyms owners to make it work, out there that use everyone skill and no skill attitude no attitude its the coaches and the gym owners remember it is also your business and it could be gone in an istant/

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In regards to # 1 Everyone does make a team so in regards to our gym there is no false advertisement. I could give you some cases of false advertisement but then that would start drama.  What i am saying is that you may not make the team you want to be on. You may want to be on a Level 4 or 5 team but your all around skill set...jumps, motions, dance, stunting and tumbling is Level 3. Our obligation is not to put you on the team you want to be on but the team that you are the best fit for both agae and skill wise.

I do not know what other gyms do but in our case just because a child is an alternate on one team does not mean they do not compete on another team regardless to if they are throwing all their skills or not. All of our alternates have a base or primary team that they are on.

Most people I have seen have issues with the alternate rule do so not so much because of the money but because of wanting to keep a certain spot on a certain team regardless to loss of skill. They want to make sure that the flyer who is not tumbling does not lose her position as a flyer in the routine. I have even heard of some parents that wanted the coaches to keep busted tumbling passes in the routine because their child would come through on competition day (rarely happens) Loss of skill is not always something a coach can fix immediately...that is a cooperative effort between parents, coaches and athletes.

In regards to #2 We have still had parents pull kids out because of grades, in spite of the agreement. The team rolls on but it is not fair to the team for anybody to come and go as they please. The same would be true for missing practice for anything other than an emergency. But when they get it straight and want to come back their "position" may not be there.

In regards to # 3 How would you modify it? The only thing I could see acceptable is reasonable alterations, which we allow. Maybe if all gyms went back to the 29.00 uniforms then it would not matter what you did with them because the price you paid would not be so much of an issue. The owners probably would not mind either.

to #4. I realize that some people get their children involved in sports to keep them out of trouble. We have plenty of children in our gym like that. But it still requires them to be good citizens outside of the gym. Again that is a group effort.