Dd does a sport as a hobby.
Don’t want to out myself, but there are about 40 kids doing this sport all at the same time.
They are split into groups of about 10 with 1 coach each.
It’s pretty expensive, think £12 per lesson.
The coach kind of focuses on one child, while the other 9 practice different things.
The doors to the area are locked, so no kids can wander off, but there’s a viewing area.
The groups are age related, and my dd is in the youngest group. They can be moved up a group, but only if they are good enough.
The last few weeks I’ve been watching and there are 2 boys which seem to be giving my DD a hard time. They push her around when the coach is focusing on one child in the group, push her off equipment, and pull her around.
I can’t intervene as the doors are locked.
Also it’s chaos in there, as they are trying to hand 40 kids back to parents at the end of the session and are taking another 40 or so kids into the next session.
I feel like I can’t interrupt the handing over of children to express my concerns.
My dd loves this activity, but realistically what would be complaining achieve? They won’t exclude the 2 boys that are hurting her, they can’t move her to a higher group as she’s only just started the hobby, and I don’t think they can keep more of an eye on her if there’s 10 kids that each coach needs to watch, whilst doing 1:1 with a single child.
I feel like I might send an email to the organiser.
Do you think this would be ok?
She really enjoys the sport, but her little face looks so sad when she’s being pushed around. She never retaliates or says anything back to the boys, she just keeps on trying to do what the coach has asked her to practise.