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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]$13/class is absolute insanity.  DPR could easily increase that and still meet demand.  Also, I agree about higher fees for out of county residents.[/quote]The same is true of AAC.  If youth sports that don't recover fees were looked at holistically, there's a way to spread this out more fairly.[/quote]

Why should costs for a competitive gymnastics team be spread out more fairly?  What's fair about that?

AAC and competitive gymnastics shouldn't be run out of the County at all.

[b]The role of a parks and rec department is in the title.  Rec[/b].[/quote]

I imagine you don’t realize that your tax dollars are also subsidizing other competitive sports. ATB, Storm, and ASA (i.e. travel baseball and soccer) get priority field status and discounted field rates. In those instances there is a partnership with a private organization (so that the county doesn’t handle hiring/employing coaches, registration and tryouts, etc.) So it is disingenuous to pretend DPR exists solely for rec level purposes.

Now perhaps there needs to be a spin off nonprofit that pairs with the gymnastics program so that Arlington County isn’t responsible for the oversight and management of the competitive team. Based on what I’ve heard from a friend with a kid on the competitive team (plus what I’ve read here) it sounds like the county isn’t doing a super job. But this type of partnership hasn’t been proposed, the county is jumping straight to elimination. Why? Other sports are supported so why not gymnastics.

There is ample demand for rec gymnastics and they could add ways to meet that demand while pairing with a nonprofit that could help oversee the kids getting funneled to a higher level.  [/quote]

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