tryouts vs. pref night!!
 

OK, I am just a mother venting here! My daughter's state school has delayed rush this year until the second week of school; no big deal, or so we thought. She has been looking forward to being a member of the school's dance team, one of the reasons for attend this ACC school. The coach just posted the date for tryouts; yep, they are the same night as Pref night!! :( My daughter has emailed back and forth with the coach to see if there might be an alternate date and he has said no; come then or not at all. Of course, he isn't having cheerleading tryouts until the next week after rush!:confused:

Now we don't know if my daughter would have even made the team, but she will never know without trying out. She is not willing to give up sorority to try out as she has a better shot of being in a sorority, something she also wants to do. I have no idea if the coach didn't even take other school activities into account, or if rush week being changed was the problem. I can tell you that my daughter has been trying to find out the date of tryouts since last year. She always got the run around from the secretary who would say the date will be posted in the school newspaper, which it was on Monday.

Thanks for letting me vent; I didn't want to be upset around my daughter as she is upset enough. This is one mess that mom can't do anything about and baby bird will have to deal; but boy does it make me mad!!!:mad: :mad:

Tell daughter to immediately talk to her recruitment counselor! This happens...I think the sororities can work through it. I'm sure they'd LOVE to have someone on dance team in their chapter!

Recruitment kick off isn't until next week so she hasn't been placed in a RC group yet. Even if the RC gave the go ahead for my daughter to attend the tryout, wouldn't she be missing an important day as it is Pref night, the night before Bid Day? I don't think my daughter would want to miss this night, expecially if she didn't have a strong first choice chapter. Of course, I am assuming she will have several choices as I am her mother!;)

Cause there are no conservatives in the North nor liberals in the South, right? ;)

Teasing!

i hadn't heard this term before thursday. i was at the library and while waiting, a newspaper targeting people over 50 caught my attention. the article was about helping parents adjust to sending their kids off to college and how some colleges are responding to helicopter parents. i will post some of the things from the article if i have a chance this weekend. it was funny.