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[quote=Anonymous]Our coach has mentioned that the gymnasts are doing better without the distraction of having the parents there. Our waiting room was an absolute packed nightmare before the pandemic, just way too many people crammed in a small space, so it's probably one of the last places I would feel comfortable going from an infection control perspective.  For our place they are still requiring masks for kids over 5 and doing temperature checks on everyone who walks in.  Parents and siblings being there would increase the number of foreheads they need to scan and would mean a staff member needs to enforce mask-wearing on parents.  Whether any of that is still necessary is another question (certainly the temp checks are a joke), but it is all part of the agreements we signed last fall so I can see why they are sticking to it.  Maybe things will change when we re-up this fall.  They are a business, and I imagine part of their calculus is catering to what they believe is the COVID-caution level among their customers.

They may also be taking advantage of the pandemic to keep this going longer than is necessary, not for nefarious reasons but just because of the crowding and the distractions.  But at some point they will need to let people back in; this is the last sport that needs to be keeping parents at arms' length.  That said, I hope that it has forged a culture change where most parents are dropping in once a month or so to watch rather than sitting there through the entire lesson every week.  [/quote]

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