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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It feels way too crowded and there are 7-8 kids in one lane. Also, they take everyone. There are 3 5-6 year-olds who can barely swim 10 meter and they are there and still take up an entire lane. I thought the requirement is to be able to swim 25m?

What are my other options? Kid is 8. FINS?[/quote]

What location is this?  If this is MoCo, they do pro-rated refunds until Dec so that might be something to consider.

I had a 5yo go through this and although he could go 25m w/o stopping, that was only 1 or 2 lengths in the beginning of practice/session and then he'd be grabbing the wall or rope for breaks or bobbing off the bottom to propel himself using the rope to propel himself, etc, he figured out all the "tricks".  Although he was comfortable in the "big pool", he just didn't have the endurance at that age.  This gradually went away and by the time he was 7 he didn't do it anymore.

In my experience, these younger/weaker swimmers would be in the lane closest to the wall and wouldn't be in a lane w/ a stronger 8yo swimmer like your DC so I'm not sure why this would be an issue unless they aren't running the session this way in which case you should raise this with the coach - lane grouping by age/ability is common practice and they should be doing this.
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[b]I think OP is saying the younger kids that shouldn’t be there are in a lane to themselves[/b], which is then forcing the other lanes to be overcrowded. OP, my kid got more out of FINS than stroke and turn for similar reasons. They did a year of FINS (age 8) and then moved to a club the following year.[/quote]

That's OP's mistake/misunderstanding of the program.

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[b]Parents, please stop over-estimating your kids’ abilities or throwing them into something like a stroke and turn clinic knowing full well they aren’t ready for it.[/b] It ruins the experience for everyone else who is appropriately there because they are constantly having to adjust the session for the kids that aren’t ready to be there. [/quote]

But that's not a parent decision, that is a coach/instructor/coordinator decision.

Parents can overestimate all they want but at the end of the day,if they don't "belong" there, they won't be there regardless of what the parents think/want.

There are going to be a range of abilities in any group setting, that's just how it works.  If you don't want/like this, go private.

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My kid started through the MoCo programs and this is patently untrue. It was a regular occurrence where the parents would put a kid in a level (or more) above their ability and the instructors never kicked a kid out or were able to move them a level down. [/quote]

I had a different experience with my daughter.  She was promoted from one level to the next in their beginning series so we signed her up.  When the class started, she clearly wasn't ready - more emotionally/mentally than skill wise - and was very clingly to the instructor.  He informed us at the end of the second class that she wasn't a good fit so we withdrew her.  All their classes at those levels fill so there wasn't an option to move down a class for that session.

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