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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]would it make people feel better if instead of the category being named 11-12, it was, say, "age 11 or 12 as of June 1 of this year" or even "born between June 1, 2010 and May 31, 2012"?[/quote]

It would make people feel better if summer swim worked like year round swim. [/quote]

The vast majority of people doing summer swim don't do year round swim.  Kids who do already have huge advantages.  Why would we change a system that works to accommodate them?

Frankly, I think it would be great if summer swim worked like many other sports.  If you do club you can't do rec. You have to choose. [/quote]
As a club parent, I would be fine if we could drop summer swim, it’s a time suck on top of the time we are still spending on club practice and meets during the summer. But all the bragging and pride people take in their pool’s summer league placement would disappear because all of that is not based on 8 year old Larla on the team for the first time, it’s based on the fast club kids. [/quote]

YOU CAN drop summer swim.[/quote]
I would drop it in a second, but my kid enjoys it. Plus the crap we would get from our pool because my kid is a top point earner would be annoying. In reality the pool cares way more about whether my club swimmer participates than the kid who won’t ever sniff an A meet. Summer swim in this area is what it is, which is why the club swimmers will never be barred from participating.[/quote]

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