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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]While camp might give swim lessons, you shouldn't be expecting them to teach her to swim. Swim team or swim lessons while at home is how she'd pass the test and how her friends are doing it. Camp for a few weeks for 4 years plus messing around in the pool won't teach her.[/quote]

Ignoring your condescension, part of the camp's purpose is to teach the kids to swim. What do you think "instructional swim" is? And it isn't four week, it's eight weeks over four years - that's a lot of pool time. Someone should learn to swim with that amount of instruction.  [/quote]

Nix the attitude, OP. I'm not the PP you responded to. My kid needed one-on-one private instruction to learn to swim. He had motor issues and ADHD. Even if your child is entirely neurotypical, some kids just don't learn well in group settings, especially in more casual camp settings. Maybe this camp isn't actually good at teaching kids to swim, and those who pass their test have instruction on the side. Who knows?

But the answer is to pay for private instruction elsewhere. It's going to get dangerous for your child if she can't keep up with her peers.
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8 weeks over 4 years is nothing. WSI PP and for some of my kids it took 4 years of year-round weekly lessons in a pool plus 7 weeks every summer of *daily* lake lessons before they passed all of their tests and could go to deep water.

It is ok to go slow. Lake swimming is a really big deal and you don’t want to shortcut safety.[/quote]

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