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[quote=soccermom4608]Go ahead and argue about why I'm wrong and my kid sucks, I really don't care.  Just needed to get this out somewhere.

Kid had a good offer from another club last spring while his current club's tryouts were still going on.  We reached out to the relevant people at the current club to see what their thinking was on his placement for next year because his preference was to stay with the current club but needed to give an answer to the other club.  Coach of the team he had hoped to make (let's call it purple) calls me to say kid is going to be offered a spot on purple and welcome to the team.  Kid declines the other offer and then a week later gets an offer from his current club to join cyan, the team below purple.  When I reach out to the coach to find out what's going on, he says nothing was definite when we spoke because it wasn't in writing and they were still evaluating for purple for next year so he might have a chance to move up.  That's a load of bullshit but whatever, opportunity with the other club was gone so kid didn't have much of a choice for this year.

Right before practices start, kid is asked to practice with purple even though those practices directly conflict with cyan so he wouldn't be able to practice with his own team.  After three weeks of practicing exclusively with purple, kid is told he is going to play with purple for Labor Day tournament.  This is communicated to the cyan coach, who brings up a player from the team below to take our kid's spot for their tournament.  Purple coach then goes silent, and when we follow up today to get the tournament schedule, we are told they don't need my kid for the tournament after all so he won't be playing with them.  Cyan coach rightly doesn't want to be a total dick to the player who committed to play with them this weekend, and now there's no room on the cyan tournament roster to add my kid.  So my kid is now left out in the cold, not playing at all this weekend.

I so want to pull him out of this club now, because this is total horsehit and the adults involved should be ashamed of themselves.  I would not tolerate this as an adult from any employer or organization, but these people apparently have zero qualms about doing this to a kid.  My kid is desperate to stay, though, because he doesn't want to go an entire year without playing.  But after this year, everyone involved in this club can choke on a dick.  Well, except the cyan coach.  He can live.[/quote]

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