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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So funny you should ask - summer swim can only cater to the elite where families can have a stay at home parent, nanny, etc. Practice times do not work for most families. Whereas in the 70s and 80s most families had a parent at home.  That was the genesis of summer swim.

Nowadays kids are in camps, sports, etc that they spend all day at while mom and dad work. A lof of kids don't waste their time on "fun" summer league and just swim club.

Pools that gave into their general membership to limit practice times or not make the pool family friendly are dying.  It is all about the young families.  Offering swim lessons, fun things for them to do, etc.[/quote]

My mom was a teacher so she was off in the summer. So were the moms of many of the kids on my swim team growing up. We were definitely not elite. There are a ton of dual working parent households on my kids’ swim team. With remote work becoming more common the parents just flex their schedules. They’re either on their phone or laptop at the pool or they just drop their kids off for practice and come back in an hour. Or the kids are old enough to ride their bikes to practice. I don’t think working is the barrier it used to be to joining swim team. Of course there is a separate issue of systemic racism and history of pool clubs, that affects pool membership in general.[/quote]

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