1 /5 D I&V (Ian & Victoria): My husband was bullied and harassed because of what leadership allowed to happen. My husband was coaching for Rose Valley Friends basketball program free of charge (2 teams and for 2 years) and struggled to get kids to practice after he drove 1 hour round trip, the leadership suggested him to limit playing time if they missed practice. We only had one practice per week. So he did what they recommended. The kids who failed to make practice played 15-21 minutes. 20 minutes is half the game while the kids who made practice played more as they knew our plays. When a parent literally got in my husband’s face (her kid made 3 of 9 practices and 2 other boys made 2 of 9 practices) yelling at my husband beside the scoreboard table in the middle-end of the game and all with the kids of the team present - the one in charge played it off like he heard her but for some reason didn’t take action but claims he would have (Idk what his excuse was it made zero sense imo he avoided the situation deliberately) so he allowed it to escalate leading to harassing emails. My husband since he was not being backed up by leadership decided it wasn’t a good environment for him or our 3 kids for the last 2 weeks of games so he chose to give it to them to handle. They should have backed the coach but they didn’t and now our kids lost out who did NOTHING but work hard for kids who flaked out of practices because they only wanted to play games and not attend the practices wasting the coaches time. Such a sad situation and our kids have really struggled this last week by this. We will NEVER volunteer our time again to help anyone after this situation (especially when parents are involved cuz they get emotionally nasty) and now our kids want to give up sports. I’m sure our kids will be fine with time but way to make them believe in the “church” atmosphere.
So, I would think twice before attending this church with this leadership who just ignored us when we ran into issues with the parents even though he did want leadership suggested. We demanded a refund (they did refund us which we are thankful about - the letter simply had the check and nothing else) but our kids still lost out in the end because of some rude entitled ungrateful parents and a church who lacks the leadership needed to effectively run a program.
