teams merging

EPL Fan wrote:

sokker123 wrote:

anselansel wrote:"It's not the point of the merge. I could honestly care less about that - two equal Plano teams merging = one Plano team. It's not like they are going to make breaking news, set new records, or anything else above and beyond. Look out ECNL here we come!!! Merges happen all the time. It is the principle that he told her to withhold the information from her parents. This is just unacceptable."

respectfully, i would submit that you contact the coach and then make a decision. relying on a kid to verbatim tell you what happened and in context is dicey. it seems foolish for any adult to think that 15 kids can keep a secret about anything.................

Normally I would agree but when you have 4-5 girls stating the same thing and all of them discussing it on Facebook between them I find it hard to believe that they miss understood or got some thing out of context. Yes it does seem foolish for an adult to think any number of kids will keep it a secret, but why even go there and then expect the kids to hide it from their parents. Best case scenario would have been disclose the information to the parents/kids at the same time when the time is appropriate. The coach should be someone the kids can look up to and not only respect but be able to trust. When they are being told not to discuss this information with their parents (regardless of the message) it is just bad business and not an environment I want my DD to be associated with. We have been with the team several years (multiple coaches and multiple clubs). My DD continues to return here because of the other girls not because of the level of play, club name, coach, etc (yes she has played for the Texans and other clubs) but when she comes home asking me why she should tell me something discussed at practice because she didn't see any harm in the message is concerning to me as her parent. I am thankful my DD is as open as she is so little things like this don't end up becoming some thing big like this. https://www.txsoccer.net/t5653-paschal-girls-soccer-coach-resigns-after-investigation

I think you should just leave the team and stop slamming this coach. If you do not have the courage to discuss the situation with him/her, why keep bringing it up. You need to become the parent and find out what happened and correct the situation or let it go. To post the link even suggesting the two situations could be the same, is out of line.

96soccermom wrote:Interesting, my dd also plays on one of those Liverpool teams. The girls on her team were also told about the teams but it was more on the lines of we will be looking at both teams, and making two new teams between the two teams currently here. The girls were not told to "keep it from the parents" and within 12 hours of the practice there was a email about the conversation to the parents from our coach.