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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's strange to me that this is the activity that gets so much flack on DCUM for being "privileged" or "elitist".

For my 2 kids summer swimming costs $440 a season per child.  That's $5 a kid more than if they joined the team at the public pool.  It works out to about $10 a day.  It's a whole lot less expensive than a summer of camp, or travel soccer, or a family vacation or any one of a number of things that DCUM seems to think are normal.  We can walk to the pool from our neighborhood of $500K houses, and rental apartment communities, which worked well when I was a SAHM without a car, and works well now that they're teenagers and can get there when I am at work.

There are two different options for practice times, and no one bats an eye if you miss one or a bunch of practices, which worked well for us as a family who needed flexibility due to a first responder parent.

I'm not saying it's perfect or that every family can do it, but it's far from the most elitist activity for kids.  [/quote]

$440 is a lot of money for some people.

Time itself is a commodity.  And wellness.  Some of us have little to none.  We might be busy in litigation, surgery, caring for a paralyzed family member, long covid, maybe a major house leak destroyed most of our home and several contractors are here, working nights and weekends, etc. [/quote]

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