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[quote=Anonymous]I live elsewhere, but during the pandemic my Dd left a gym that was run like this. Not letting the parents in was initially because of state restrictions on how many people could gather per square foot in an indoor place. But then he state allowed people to gather freely indoors and the gym kept up the restrictions. Then they dropped the competitive program DD was in and she switched to another gym.

In hindsight, her old gym was overcrowded and mostly focused on making money by warehousing kids in giant, poorly organized recreational classes. There was constant coaching turnover, old equipment, and smelly,  crumbling mats. The gym was poorly managed before the pandemic but the pandemic exposed all of its weaknesses to me. The parents were just one more thing that the gym couldn’t manage and they were happy to reduce questions from parents about moving up levels, class sizes, number of turns, etc. The gym now is only for recreational classes and basically thrives on kids birthday parties, fees for indoor playground/open gym, and intro rec classes. The lower level of the classes they offer mean they can have more kids per class because they don’t need spotters or coaches watching every move to make corrections, so they can pack kids in. There would never be room for all of the parents and they know it![/quote]

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