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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I also dislike the culture among the parents.  It feels a lot like a fraternity and sorority.[/quote]

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I didn't realize joining a community pool was going to be like going back to high school, and that my perfectly nice non-team member child would be on the social dud list.  This is just so fucking weird and cliched.  Can't wait to get away from this $700 summer of watching a bunch of little snots and their nasty parents hang out together.[/quote]

Oh no what pool is this? We are new to suburbs and new to community pools. Is this what happens?[/quote]

I did my time as a swim parent and after morning swim practice, weekend and week nights spent at swim meets, team socials....my kids had their fill of swimming and didn't go to the pool to just hang out like they did pre swim team.  It may seem as though the swim team kids are avoiding the non swim team kids but that is truly not the case.  And it's also not true that all of the swim team kids are popular "in" crowd type kids.  We found that some members of the team, like anything else, could be somewhat cliquish.  But there were usually enough non-cliquish parents and kids to make the experience enjoyable.

I would suggest trying it one summer with the warning that it is a time commitment and will be a big part of what you/your child do over the summer.[/quote]

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