Beware! Bullying and harassment!
This review is regarding…read morethe competitive side.
-3 bully girls on my child's team shoved the other 4 girls daily, smacked other athletes in the face & head, punched my child in the stomach, repeatedly put their fingers in her face & bossed her around. They annoyed, bullied, harassed & threw equipment at her & others. They also rolled around & laid on mats in others stations so the girls who actually wanted to train couldn't. The bullies are there for free play time & to harass & annoy others, not gymnastics. The only coach that addressed the issue is no longer employed @the gym. How these girls are on team is a mystery to me.
-my child's coaches didn't correct form until the season was over. They also barked orders that the girls didn't understand & neglected to explain.
-office staff is rude & speak disparagingly about parents & coaches.
-don't ask for a meeting to discuss issues, you'll be ignored.
-the gym owner checked out of his business for a solid year.
-they don't respect safe sport policies. They defy the policies when they allow bullying & harassment. They ignored policies when they attempted to silence me out of discussing my concerns. They defied the policies when they retaliated against my child & myself by ejecting her from the program for her mom expressing concerns regarding the bullying & asking for resolution.
-they drastically changed our schedule 3 times last year with no regard for our personal lives.
-the bully girls, despite their conduct, treatment of others & poor scores at competition were still moved up, leaving the good athletes who are well behaved & actually want to train to deal with their harassment another year. This caused endeavor to lose several amazing athletes.
-I provided the gym owner the dates, times & station where bullying took place so he could pull camera footage, I was ignored.
If I wanted my daughter to have free play time & be annoyed by kids with bad behavior I would take her to the park & save my money. I paid $375/ mo for my daughter to learn gymnastics, not for her spirit to be broken & walk out of the gym crying, expressing that she no longer loved gymnastics & wanted a new gym.
I'm happy for the parents whose children were fortunate enough to land on a supportive team w/ a coach that corrects negative behavior but we didn't get that. Endeavor coaches had no problem sending my child off the floor for crying (which I support) but wouldn't send bullies off the floor for physically assaulting teammates. I guess my money wasn't as green as theirs. That is a lot of money to spend for a great portion of the classes being the bullies shoving athletes to the back of the line, instigating arguments, fighting for front of the line just to throw their hair around in my daughters face to irritate her, or stand on a block holding up the line because they don't know what to do because they don't listen to the coaches. The bullies had bad attitudes, throwing a fit if they were asked to take a picture or if a teammate tried to hug them. It's impossible to thrive in such an environment. One of the bullies annoyed my daughter on the sidelines at a competition, on her back poking her, causing her to trip going into her tumbling pass, two coaches stood there and did nothing, yet my daughter is expected to perform well. My daughter has since trialed several gyms & was welcomed into environments with supportive, friendly, encouraging teammates and I watched in amazement as I saw my once confident athlete return to her prior glory. It's amazing how the environment plays a role in how an athlete performs. We're now fixing what endeavor broke in my daughter: her spirit. Thank you, endeavor, for showing us what a gym should not be. Pretty sad when your greatest asset is air conditioning.
Going back I wish I would have recorded all the times the girls put their fingers in my daughters face, shook their hair in her face to irritate her, punched her in the stomach, threw things at her, yelled at her, etc. This is a healthy training environment? What a joke! This is embarrassing & frankly insulting that they placed my daughter & other strong athletes in a group with such nonsense. If the bullies spent as much time working on skills as they did fighting to be 1st in line they might actually be successful.
Be forewarned, if you come here & happen to get a good group then good for you, but if you end up in a group like this they will do absolutely nothing to resolve it.
*edited to add that yelp wont allow me to post the video of 1 of the bullies smacking a teammate in the face but im happy to provide it to anyone interested.
Of course endeavor would want my videos of negative behavior removed. I hope the bullies &their parents are embarrassed. I hope they remember that while their disgusting behavior ruined my child's experience, she continued to cheer for & celebrate them. You can try to silence me, endeavor, but just like at competition, you'll fail.