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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a millennial parent and work 2-3 jobs because of the boomers, so I don't have time.[/quote]

That's understandable, and I am sure since you can't volunteer, you wouldn't sign your kids up to swim.[/quote]

This is the only answer. The answer cannot be that bc you work a lot, you can’t volunteer, which is an advertised requirement for your kid to participate), yet you still sign your kid up. The woman who cleans my home volunteered for an NVSL team every meet, despite working 12+ hour days most days 30 years ago…so her child could have the experience. If she can do it, everyone can. [/quote]

As someone who volunteers every swim meet (often both spouses, our kids are all old enough to not need childcare), and volunteers for special events, and does support work outside of meets and events ... and holds volunteer leadership positions in other kids activities ... this attitude makes me really sad.  I mean, we need the same number of volunteers for every event, 3 timers per lane, etc.  If Suzy's parents can't volunteer, it really doesn't change the workload for me whether Suzy is on the team or not.  How does it help the team to prevent her from joining?  All you're doing is punishing a kid for her parents' inability/unwillingness/whatever, and limiting the growth of the team.  It's better for all of the kids to include as many people on the team as we can.  You guys are making this too much about the parents and losing sight of the kids, why we're doing it in the first place.[/quote]

I'm a team rep and there's a difference between families who can't volunteer and those who think they're too special to volunteer.  Mom with multiple kids and dad is deployed?  I'm not going to get on their case.  Family with multiple kids swimming and both parents sit in the spectator area so they can video and cheer? Damn right I'm going to assign them jobs.

I don't want to deprive kids of an opportunity because their parents are jacka$$es, but sometimes people stop being jacka$$es only once they realize that their behavior is impacting their kids.
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PP here.  I have no issue whatsoever with the team rep assigning jobs to those who can do them, even if they would prefer not to!  I get that.  I'm just responding to the statements that parents who [i]can't[/i] volunteer for whatever reason need to pull their kids from the team.  That seems unnecessarily punitive.

Thanks for all you do - I volunteer a lot, but it's nothing compared to our team rep!  That's a huge job.[/quote]

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