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[quote=Anonymous][quote]It's not a job, they don't need two weeks notice. At the tryouts, they are looking to see if anyone is better than your kid anyway. It's good to leave on a positive note (not trashing the club, saying that you appreciate what your coach and the club did for you), but it is not required to give a certain amount of notice in advance of the tryout that your child will not be attending. At the end of the day, while it is great to be polite, the club's interest is in what is best for the club, not your kid as an individual.

This may be true for some clubs and some coaches but DD's friend gave a club a lot of notice she was looking around and it was fine. The coach had helped train her for 2 years and was supportive. It is not a big club so they are more about personal relationships than about thinking of kids as bags of money.[/quote]

I am glad it worked out for your daughter's friend, but at larger and more competitive clubs, this is not expected.  Unless you personally know that your coach is a great guy or lady who will put your child's interests ahead of promoting the club's interest for the remaining time that your child is there, it's not advisable.  I've had three kids go through two larger clubs.  No one is necessarily thinking of kids as "bags of money," but if the goal is, as it often should be, having the kids work together as a team, then naturally, they are going to put more focus on the kids who will at least potentially be members of that group in the future.[/quote]

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