>>[James Caan] we had Classic kids that played both Fall and Spring @ CESA and were told not to waste there time even trying out for Challenge. 2 of which were former Challenge(B) team players. of a 16 player roster only 2 kids were instructed to "try-out" for the next level.<<
>>Not prevented but our coach went to the Kids and Parents and told them that the Coach of the next level only wanted to look at them(2).<<
Okay...I think I'm getting the picture. Let me recap: the challenge and classic coach get together and do a review of players, that the coaches only identified two players on classic that they thought would have a good chance of making challenge and then let those two players know their opinion. That part seems okay, right? I know that it's a policy to make sure that coaches don't try to make their teams better by preventing kids from moving to more competitive teams and coaches at different levels are supposed to talk to each other about kids they think have a good possibility of moving to different teams.
The problem as I'm reading your note is the possible exclusion of the other kids on the classic team. The crux of this is whether the other kids were told "...we don't want you to go to challenge tryouts..." I would think it's okay not to give the other kids some type of false encouragement (which would be dishonest and lack integrity), but it's not okay to tell them that they can't go to tryouts or even shouldn't go to tryouts. Now...if a kid walks up to the coach and asks for the coach's opinion, then the coach should give an honest assessment. But if the coach is telling the other players they don't have a chance and shouldn't tryout then that's crossing a very big line.
If the kids were told they couln't go to tryouts, that seems like it would be absolutely wrong and whatever coach told them that should be reported to the executive directors via e-mail or telephone or in person. If that's what occurred, I'd encourage you to report the coach. If you want to remain anonymous and don't have a mechanism to report them, then PM me with the information from your anonymous screen name and I'll report them for you.