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[quote=Anonymous]Before I had kids I never expected to be spending 45 minutes a week in a strip mall swim school but that's how my kid learned to swim.

County rec programs are great in theory, but at least in this area, they can be hard to impossible to get into, or poorly run (or both!). That's how I learned to swim and I thought my kid would too, and then we struggled to get spots in lessons and when we did, half the time the instructor wouldn't show or they'd "forget" class was running and it would start 20 minutes late. Or something would be wrong with the pool.

Also, waitlists for many of the pool clubs in this area can be really long. We've been on the list for the PG Pool for 6 years and probably will never get off. We are looking for another pool and may just suck it up and join one that is further away from us, but in the meantime, our kid needed to learn to swim.

To people saying the strip mall schools don't work -- they can. My kid was afraid to put her face in the water when she was 4 yrs old, and now she's 5 and she can swim. We won't go to one forever but it was worth it for us. And while pricier than county classes, it wasn't that bad -- we just do it from May to September and take weeks off for vacations. Spent about $600 this year. Worth it given the results.[/quote]

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