Experience at the swim club. Normal?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a high schooler. They never know their schedules in advance because they have pool managers making the schedule just a couple days in advance, they have school team coaches changing schedules all the time, and they have parents who schedule family activities without telling them. The manager should have scheduled you with another person. But I have a feeling the manager is a teenager or a very young adult as well.

This is op. She's not young. She has a teenage daughter. I will not be joining this pool or any outdoor pool again. Lesson learned.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a high schooler. They never know their schedules in advance because they have pool managers making the schedule just a couple days in advance, they have school team coaches changing schedules all the time, and they have parents who schedule family activities without telling them. The manager should have scheduled you with another person. But I have a feeling the manager is a teenager or a very young adult as well.

This is op. She's not young. She has a teenage daughter. I will not be joining this pool or any outdoor pool again. Lesson learned.

Outdoor private pools are more about swim team, socializing and summer family fun that structured lessons. If they have ok lessons, that’s a bonus. The best time to learn is in private lessons during the school year or at a county/public pool in the summer. It’s also really important to swim for fun with your child whenever possible.

Not saying this is you, OP, but I see parents at our pool every year who aggressively push their kids in lessons and badger their instructors about why they aren’t ready for swim team. They’re the parents who never get wet and bring their child for lessons and then take them home right after. It will take a long time to get results that way. If you’re not a strong swimmer yourself, Op, I know a lot of adults who became great swimmers through adult lessons and it helped their kids improve because they could swim together for fun.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a high schooler. They never know their schedules in advance because they have pool managers making the schedule just a couple days in advance, they have school team coaches changing schedules all the time, and they have parents who schedule family activities without telling them. The manager should have scheduled you with another person. But I have a feeling the manager is a teenager or a very young adult as well.

This is op. She's not young. She has a teenage daughter. I will not be joining this pool or any outdoor pool again. Lesson learned.

Outdoor private pools are more about swim team, socializing and summer family fun that structured lessons. If they have ok lessons, that’s a bonus. The best time to learn is in private lessons during the school year or at a county/public pool in the summer. It’s also really important to swim for fun with your child whenever possible.

Not saying this is you, OP, but I see parents at our pool every year who aggressively push their kids in lessons and badger their instructors about why they aren’t ready for swim team. They’re the parents who never get wet and bring their child for lessons and then take them home right after. It will take a long time to get results that way. If you’re not a strong swimmer yourself, Op, I know a lot of adults who became great swimmers through adult lessons and it helped their kids improve because they could swim together for fun.

Op here. Yeah, that's not me. My son doesn't want to be on the swim team.

[Anonymous]

I think the OP got gypped here.

I'd also say that the best way for kids to learn to swim is to just go to the pool a lot. If your pool has a summer camp or you can find a summer day camp with a pool, go to that for a few weeks. Some even incorporate lessons and the kids get tons of water time. My oldest took "lessons" and they were pretty useless. The others learned by doing (playing) and was far easier. They're self taught essentially.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a high schooler. They never know their schedules in advance because they have pool managers making the schedule just a couple days in advance, they have school team coaches changing schedules all the time, and they have parents who schedule family activities without telling them. The manager should have scheduled you with another person. But I have a feeling the manager is a teenager or a very young adult as well.

This is op. She's not young. She has a teenage daughter. I will not be joining this pool or any outdoor pool again. Lesson learned.

That's a complete over-correction but you do you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the OP got gypped here.

I'd also say that the best way for kids to learn to swim is to just go to the pool a lot. If your pool has a summer camp or you can find a summer day camp with a pool, go to that for a few weeks. Some even incorporate lessons and the kids get tons of water time. My oldest took "lessons" and they were pretty useless. The others learned by doing (playing) and was far easier. They're self taught essentially.

People don't really say this anymore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At our pool the swim lessons are free lance by the kids who are authorized by the Board to give them (usually lifeguards who are also on swim team), so the pool manager has nothing to do with it. Its up to the person taking the lesson to make the schedule with the teacher.

Yep, same here - we just coordinate with the instructor (who is both a lifeguard and on the swim team)