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Originally Posted by Ghost Econ
Not really about awful youth sports parents, but do other sports change their practice times when schools are on break? I ask because when my daughter was doing gymnastics, they would move practices to during the day when schools were on holidays. Now that she swims year round they also do that.
Since I don't have experience with other sports, do all sports that are active during the holidays do this? Do they just not care that parents still have to work during the weekdays and it's kinda hard to get kids to practice in the middle of the day? Not to mention that we have a swim meet the weekend before Christmas and then one the weekend after New Years, which means kids can't afford to skip many practices. I'll be so happy when she can drive herself next year and we can stop playing this scheduling game we've been stuck in for the past decade.
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School sports have almost always been a yes. For the non school sports that have switched, they did so if the majority of the kids lived within walking/biking distance of the practice location, if the kids are driving age, or finally if there are enough parents willing to drive groups of kids to the practice location. That last one has happened more frequently in areas where the household income is more than a bit above the national average.
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