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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My gymnast is 9 hours/week and we pay about $4000 (not counting meet fees/leo etc).

Swim for 4.5 hours/week is about the same price

Dance is $6000 I think? That’s for 10 hours/week and doesn’t include competition or costume fees, but those are cheaper than the feea for gymnastics

Travel sport for my youngest is per season so harder to compare, but it adds to $2500 for the three season (6 hours/week). That doesn’t include summer, and there are month long breaks between seasons

Dance is definitely the most expensive for us, but swim seemed to be the most insane, since they have a lot of kids in the pool and few coaches![/quote]

Is this competition dance team?

My kid is a classical ballet dancer (takes multiple styles but ballet is her focus) and we've never spent that much. I know cost will go up when she begins pointe work, but we currently pay around 3k all in for class (3x per week plus summer intensives), recital fees and costumes, shoes and other dance gear. This number also starts much lower -- you start in once a week creative ballet classes with one recital a year and maybe one or two weeks of summer camp -- we were spending only around 1500 for all that. But as it became something she actively wanted to pursue instead of just a way to keep her occupied, we were more willing to invest money.

But we don't do dance team of competitions. There is zero travel involved. TBH she wasn't that interested in that anyway -- doesn't love the style of dance and while she enjoys performing, she loves class/training more.

I feel like we lucked out that our kid has a physical activity that she is good at and really enjoys but is really not that expensive compared to other options and requires so little of us as parents (carpools to class and I usually help out with the year end recital for a couple days, that's it). That's one of the things that is crazy to me about a lot of sports -- you are paying thousands but then you also have all these volunteer duties and extra commitments for the team booster club. You'd think it would be one or the other -- you pay a lot but everything is taken care of, or you get a bargain because parents are doing a lot of the heavy lifting. What is the point of activities that are both expensive and labor intensive for families? I don't get it.[/quote]

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