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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ours was 
8&under
9-12
13-17?

Not they are doing it as beginner intermediate and advanced because some moms think their 8&unders are too good to swim with their age group. How does your pool do it?

I don’t know what group my girls will be in but I can’t help but feel shocked that the coach approved this. My 10 year old swims very different events from an 8yr old no matter how fast this special 8 year old swims. 10yr olds are swimming 50s and need to be pushing flip turns and longer lengths while for summer an 8 year old is not doing that.

I thought summer was supposed to be fun and inclusive, we are not a top 10 division. [/quote]

Our pool does 8 and 10 and up. There is no particularly fair way of doing this, honestly. My DD is 8 and is a club swimmer who regularly swims 50s and 100s in competition, many meets which are "10 and Under." She needs to be pushing flip turns and longer lengths for development - and also because it improves her times for shorter events. Is it fair that she be training with kids who only do summer swim and 25s? Not really, but that's the rub of belonging to a community pool team. Is it fair that your kids have to practive with advanced 8 year olds? Maybe not for them, but possibly other ten year olds who are more casual swimmers. [/quote]

Your summer swim program doesn't have a responsibility to prepare your kid for events they swim with club.  That's like saying my kids' soccer team has responsibility to teach him stick handling so he can do better in lacrosse.

The idea that it's not "fair" that they aren't pushing flip turns on a kid who isn't competing 50's, or that it's not "fair" that she be training with the team she signed up for is bizarre.

At our pool, the age groups vary.   The divisions are different for morning and afternoon practice, and different again for Friday clinic.  They have to do with how many time slots and making the groupings as even as possible.  Sometimes, when a kid's on the edge of an age group they will get moved up or down.  I have a kid who is tall, fast, and has a summer birthday.   In the years when he's on the older edge of a group, he often gets moved up because it helps balance groups and they know that it's easier for me to have him and his older brother together.  I don't think he got moved up the summer he was 8 though.  [/quote]

Um, the OP is saying it’s not fair her kids need to train with advanced 8 year olds. Fairness is relative - it may not be “fair” to my kid in my subjective opinion but I would never ask them to make an exception for her or kids like her. Because parents should not 1) involve themselves in coaching decisions unless there is safety reason; 2) life is not fair and summer swim is a safe way to learn that you have to do things like be a good sport and deal with losing rebate there are always kids faster than you and respectfully pass kids swimming slower than you, too. [/quote]

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