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[quote=Anonymous][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]

PP here,

I agree that it's not something everyone can do.  But my question is why are people up in arms about this activity, and not about so many other things.  People working nights and weekends are going to have a harder time with travel soccer, and summer camp isn't going to work for them at all.  People who don't have $440 aren't going to be buying or renting in a "W" pyramid.

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