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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do strip malls have pools? Do they build them out back next to the nail salon and the tanning salon!?[/quote]

Hahah yes, see the Goldfish swim school in Rockville next to the SOMA salon.

OP, the national swim society (I made up that term) successfully convinced parents that swimming is a NECESSITY and the only way to accomplish it is to spend $1000 a year at these swim schools.  Every parent I know complains how little their kids learn from these schools.  Unless you're doing a private lesson, the amount of time your kid spends practicing with the instructor is less than 8 minutes a week.  [/quote]The strip mall classes usually have smaller groups than the county programs.  Goldfish had 3-4 kids per instructor/lane.  The county programs had 8-10 kids per instructor.  When they don't yet swim, in county lessons, that means that your kid has to sit on the edge of the pool freezing while 9 other kids take a turn before they get to swim again.  It's a pretty miserable experience.  Mine did better with warmer water and less waiting at a strip mall place.  In turn, that meant I had to deal with fewer tears and less resistance.  Once my kids could swim some and lessons had many kids swimming at once (less waiting and freezing), we switched back to county lessons.[/quote]

PP here.  I only have experience with the little kids who all have to wait for the instructor to show them something.  So 3 kids are waiting on the step while 1 is with the teacher, unless they are practicing walking along the edge.  So in a 30 minute class, that gives about 8 minutes per kid.  That makes sense it's a lot more time in the pool for the bigger kids.  [/quote]

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