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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Blame the working parents who were pissy their kids couldn’t do morning swim team. The evening swim practices are a direct result of this. [/quote]

Why not just do PM practice? Families with young kids could go in the morning, then go home to lunch/nap. Older kids would likely start showing up around noon, as the babies/toddlers are leaving, and stay through swim practice. Kids who are in camp would show up for swim practice, and stay until close.[/quote]

Because not every family, including those whose parents work, has the same schedule you do.

Our a.m. practice takes the entire pool for 3 hours.  Fold in the kids who come to p.m. practice and we'd need to close the pool for 4 or 5 hours. That means that many families wouldn't be able to go at all, to accommodate the small number of SAHM families who want morning.

Plus, we can get lifeguards for morning hours, because they are swim team kids who want to be part of the swim team.  But getting teenagers to come at 9 a.m. for lifeguard shifts is going to be hard otherwise.

Finally, there is this weird idea on DCUM that there are two kinds of families, those where both parents work full time exactly 9 - 5 who send their kids to camp, and those with a SAHP.  The reality is that the working world is much more diverse than that a.m. practice works for a lot of people.  When I think of the families I know who do a.m. practice, we have families whose parents do shift work, or who use grandparents or teenagers as childcare and want that time broken up, or who have parents who are WFH, and kids at an age where a partial day at home works and a full day doesn't, or kids like mine with other significant commitment to a sport or art form or job in the afternoon.  Both parents working full time, and using camps all summer is only the norm in a certain UMC bubble.[/quote]

Sorry to break it to you but swim team is the definition of UMC bubble. Even having a pool membership and everything OP described is peak UMC.[/quote]

Having parents who work the night shift, or using grandma or a teen sibling babysit to  instead of paying for camp each week is UMC bubble?  [/quote]

I think PP meant paying a $1000 “initiation fee”, plus an $800 annual club membership was UMC.[/quote]

Our pool is a $400 one time membership, and $660 annual, plus $270 for both kids to be on the team.  That $930 a year is much less than many people pay for camps.[/quote]

What do you think is a range for initial cost to join a club? So far I’ve seen anywhere from $675 to $1,800. [/quote]

I don’t know but obviously I think it includes $400.[/quote]

I'm not sure what you mean by this. I was asking if that's a general range ($675-$1800) for a first year cost to join a club. [/quote]

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