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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My child goes to local public, but heard about a one day lifeguarding class that was being offered by a group of private school coaches at Kenwood.

Our kid did all the online work and attended the class. He was home by 12:30 that day and said he passed. He was at the pool less than 5 hours. But sure enough, he received his Red Cross certification card a week or two after.

Shortly after that, he received an email from the Red Cross quality assurance team asking for a phone call over some questions regarding the class. They spoke and it became very clear that the training did not cover all the material. 
We are still waiting on a formal notice from the Red Cross about the certification. Crickets from those who ran the bogus class.

These private school coaches charged my kid $400 for the class. Most of the kids were from the independent schools. What’s up with this scam… do these schools allow teachers/coaches to solicit their students to sign up for their classes outside of school? Seems even more egregious when they are telling the kids they are certified for life saving when they clearly haven’t done the full curriculum. [/quote]

Post the name of the school(s) where the coaches are employed.  [/quote]

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