Anyone--parents, coaches, gym owners--feel free to comment:
This is something that's been bothering me for a while. We have some very, very young coaches at our gym. I have no complaints about their ability to coach the kids, but they spend a significant amount of time hanging out with the kids they coach and their families outside of the gym. I'm sure there is no set rule for this (how do you police your coaches' social lives?), but there are issues of favoritism at the gym and some parents are beginning to talk...it has not yet affected DD and she is relatively happy at the gym, so I doubt I'll make an issue out of it beyond this forum, but I'm just curious how others would feel if something like this happened at your gym?
BTW, we are not the only gym in town who has this issue, and ours is by no means the most egregious violations of appropriate boundaries, but still....it just doesn't seem like it would be something that's okay...
I'd really like to hear from parents who are employed as public school teachers because, to me, this is a similar scenario to teachers hanging out with the kids in their class outside of school...
This is something that's been bothering me for a while. We have some very, very young coaches at our gym. I have no complaints about their ability to coach the kids, but they spend a significant amount of time hanging out with the kids they coach and their families outside of the gym. I'm sure there is no set rule for this (how do you police your coaches' social lives?), but there are issues of favoritism at the gym and some parents are beginning to talk...it has not yet affected DD and she is relatively happy at the gym, so I doubt I'll make an issue out of it beyond this forum, but I'm just curious how others would feel if something like this happened at your gym?
BTW, we are not the only gym in town who has this issue, and ours is by no means the most egregious violations of appropriate boundaries, but still....it just doesn't seem like it would be something that's okay...
I'd really like to hear from parents who are employed as public school teachers because, to me, this is a similar scenario to teachers hanging out with the kids in their class outside of school...