We signed that we will abide by the rules and pay the fee's on time!!! Stephanie's team has an issue with attendance!! I think they have only had a few full team practices. She was telling me that there have been remarks made regarding 'next' year and attendance etc. She thinks they will be much stricter!! Some of the kids travel up to 2 hours to get to the gym!! I love the gym and coaches, they are so easy to communicate with and so positive but the attendance thing does bother me. Even when Stephanie could not participate because of her ankle, I still drove her to every practice!!! She sat and watched!!
As we near the end of the 2007-2008 season.............I wish all those cheer princesses and princes the very best. May your off season be filled with high hopes and dreams for the next season. May you all continue to love the sport and reach for the stars!!!!
Our attendance policy is extremely strict.
100% attendance is required unless you are really sick. The coaches are pretty compassionate though, so valid reasons they usually approve. Weddings, funerals, things you can't control are usually approved. But your parents had better not schedule a vacation during competition season!! Vacations are approved during June & July and during scheduled gym breakds during the year. But in the summer, if you are in town, regular 100% attendance rules apply.
They do have medical masks in the gym, so you are required to come even when you have a slight cold. You may not do much, but you have to be there. Cold and flu season is always funny to look down on the practices and see these kids doing their routines when you can only see their eyes. They wear them if they are sneezing or coughing so as not to get the whole team sick.
We have absence request forms, so if you have a wedding, etc, you have to ask for it off. They run it pretty much like an office environment. Days off have to be asked for and approved. However, just like your coaches, our coaches are so wonderful and the kids love it so much there, that the coaches usually have more of a problem keeping the really, really sick ones out.
We also have kids driving (and their parents) from all over. They must really want to be part of the program!
We are having a huge send-off party for our Junior 5 team on Sunday before they head out to Orlando. The excitement is so palatable!
Good luck to all competing and
to all trying out in the next few weeks.
And
to all the parents that they survive it all!
I don't know if that is high compared to other parts of the country but that is a big chunk of change all at once. We only do one big competition and the rest is just cheer at the local football games.
