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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our pool is finally adding a practice for kids whose parents work and cannot attend. Six years ago, when I asked about this for my kid the team rep told me that they didn't have it and if I really wanted my kid on the team I would find a way to get him to practice and then get him to camp. It was said with, frankly, contempt. We couldn't flex our schedules like that and the camps that my kid liked did not have space for a kid showing up an hour late so we didn't do summer swim. Which was fine, except on the nights that the team had their parties and our kid wasn't allowed to participate. That sucked for our kid. I think they got away with it, and yes excluding the kids of working parents is still excluding, is because there was enough people with flexible schedules who were willing to pay for summer nannies. This year that changed and they have added a swim time for kids of working parents.

Too late for us but happy for the other kids who won't be excluded because of the attitudes of the swim team reps.

Make whatever excuses you want but when you tell people who are interested in joining that you won't work with them you are actively exclusing kids. I know other people asked the same thing because of the sigh and the body language. You can call working and not having the money to pay for someone to drive your kid to swim and then camp or for a summer nanny an excuse al you want but your attitude and unwillingness to work with families at your pool actively excluded kids. [/quote]

You make it sound so easy to just add another practice on a whim.  But who is going to coach that practice (Coaches have contracts.  They were hired to work a certain number of hours and certain times of the day)?   What about the rest of the members who will lose access to part of the pool for another hour in the evenings?  [/quote]

This. It's not about the Team Reps excluding families intentionally. Is the PP that self-centered to think that more practice times negatively affect other people? Plenty of us bring our kids to practice and rush them to camp (yes, maybe late) because it's worth it to us. Or we hire a summer sitter, which is often cheaper than camp and allows for better hours.[/quote]

You do understand that it is not one person being denied? And that all of those people pay to be members of the pool? And that all of those people's kids are excluded from large events held by the pool? The idea wasn't explored and the explination was a simple rude dismissal to many families over multiple years. And now this year, when registration has dropped because people have had to return to the office and can't afford someone to take the kids to practice and then camp they suddenly found lanes and time to hold a separate practice.

Thie team was never interested in trying to find a solution for the multitude of kids who were interested but unable to participate because of working parents because it was inconvenient and not necessary. As soon as the numbers drop, they have a solution.

But that is fine, you found a solution that works for a small percentage of parents while excluding a larger number of kids and feeling self-righteous. Good for you.

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There are many solutions and they work for many parents. You wanting to remain rigid about getting to camp on time or not using a summer nanny is your issue.[/quote]

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