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[quote=Anonymous]Here's the situation.  My DD is involved in a JV sport who teammates practice together throughout the entire school year.  These girls have all played together for years and have mostly been extremely close friends (there are always one or two divas but, generally speaking, the girls are all close because they have spent so much time together).  Parents, too, have now known each other for years.  Well...the parent of one of the girls arranged a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the JV team to meet/take pictures/get autographs with one of the stars of their sport (parents are very connected people).  The DD of the parent who made the arrangements together with one of the other teammates decided it would be funny to "mistakenly" give the wrong info to my DD causing my DD to miss the event.  All the other JV girls knew and went along with this, we assume because the two pranksters are considered the team stars (though the coaches named no captains) and the rest of the girls didn't feel like they could make waves given that the parent of one of the stars had created the opportunity and they didn't want to miss out.  Well, my DD starts seeing all of the photos on Instagram and realizes that she has missed the event and wonders why no one told her the right info -- not the arranger or any of the other teammates.  At the next practice, DD asks in the locker room why no one said anything.  One teammate confesses she felt really bad (though apparently not bad enough to say anything).  The two pranksters just laugh and call it "just a fun prank."  She's devastated and can't understand why anyone would do something so mean and is questioning her very desire to remain on the team with these people she used to think of as her closest friends.  I'm struggling to help her through this mainly because I agree -- why would anyone want to stay on the team?  But to give up a sport that she has worked so hard at along with her extracurricular activity and her cohort seems so wrong.  WWYD?[/quote]

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