You can't catch conversion disorder from breathing the air in Le Roy, but that hasn't stopped parents in Rochester from keeping their kids at home this weekend rather than play basketball at Holy Family School.
"It's just disappointing," said Holy Family Coach Joan Fernaays. "These kids practice so hard. They work so hard and now they only get to play eight games of their 10-game season."
The teams are made up of children in third through sixth grades, with the fifth- and sixth-grade teams being all girls.
The teams from Rochester that canceled their games are associated with Catholic schools and are part of a Catholic school league.
"I realize it's not all of the parents (who are keeping their kids at home), but it's still disappointing," Fernaays said.
It doesn't take many parents pulling their kids from a game to mean there aren't enough players.
The games would have been played at Holy Family School, not Le Roy High School, and as Fernaays points out, if the school wasn't safe, the state and district wouldn't allow students to go there every day.
"I feel it's just ignorance on the part of the parents," Fernaays said. "These are parents who don't want to dig and find out the correct information."
Bill Albert, who is acting as spokesman for the Le Roy Central School District, said there are no games canceled at the public school.
