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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please don’t say- we have a kid in the lower age of a bracket who always dominates. Cherry picking a single example doesn’t change the fact that in the majority of cases, it’s an unfair rule. The only people who support it are non club swimmers and/or summer bday kids. [/quote]

Calling it an unfair rule is like claiming all youth sports are unfair since they all have some age cutoff. Year round swim is one of the only  exceptions, and it is an exception because it is after all year round. It would be asinine to apply the same rules to a 6 week sport. The only people against it  are a handful of obsessive cranks who refuse to accept that pretty much all summer swim leagues have a similar cutoff. [/quote]

This. It reflects the inability of some swim parents to accept that summer swim is more casual and doesn’t really mean anything.

I also think the people who complain about it fail to see the benefits for kids of dealing with a mildly unfair rule shift for the season. Like all they can see is that they think their 14yr old would dominate summer swim were it not for a couple kids turning 15 over the summer (a dubious proposition because their kid could also lose to an older 14 yr old, or a more talented younger swimmer).

But also: it’s good for kids to learn that sometimes the rules benefit you and sometimes they don’t. Sometimes you have to compete against someone bigger and stronger, and just do your best. Sometimes you’ll lose and it will turn out it doesn’t matter that much. This is all actually healthy for kids.[/quote]

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