There are always gray areas when it comes to practice to me. A couple of years ago we had a player that was pretty late to almost every practice. Eventually I started hearing some of the players complaining about it. I had to tell them, "You know she lives about 70 miles away, her mother works until 4:30 about 30 miles from their house. She has to go home, pick up the player, and head here (in traffic) to make practice".
Sometimes there are circumstances that players and parents don't know about.
Sometimes there are circumstances that players and parents don't know about.