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There are few words powerful enough to describe the horrific place that Gymnastics City is, which is almost entirely caused by the barbarians working inside the gossipy little office. Sure, as long as you remain on the "good" side of these Gestapo, by spending a gross amount of money on whatever they insist you need to do to make your child happy (absurd competition trips, hair/makeup products, private lessons, etc) they'll tell your daughter how wonderful, how talented, and how special she is. However, as soon as you get on the "less worthy" side, if you watch closely enough, you can watch your daughter be passive aggressively tormented and bullied by these "coaches" (most of which do not actually have any sort of certification that would provide any sort of qualification, nearly half of the general class staff is not even CPR certified) who range between being 10-30 years older than your daughter (who is likely at this point no older than 12 since as girls get older they realize that if they even wish to call themselves gymnasts, they must switch to another gym where gymnastics is actually taken seriously, which is what I did with my daughter who is now doing phenomenally at Dynamic Gymnastics in Shrub Oak). You'll be able to watch as your daughter has her confidence is gradually broken down by these awful people who get some sort of sick joy out of destroying young girls who they do not deem to be worthy. It is absolutely true that they do attempt to build the confidence of select girls, the few who are deemed to be "good." It is sick the way those people thrive on stories of the misfortune of other's.

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