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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If they don’t offer it, [b]you need to push your team to have later afternoon practices for pre-team/full team as an option[/b].  Carpooling, too, and you do pick up if that’s still too early.  There are ways to do it, and summer swim was great fun for our kids.[/quote]

This would be a nonstarter at many/most pools. They aren’t going to shut down the pool to general membership at the busiest time of day.[/quote]

It’s a smaller group that needs the evening session and you can get by with using a few lanes. Our pool is big so using a few lanes a few nights a week is NBD. But it would depend on the pool size. [/quote]

Question.  Are your coaches now coaching both morning and evening?  That is a lot of hours.  Or do your head coaches only do morning.  That would be a tremendous cost to do both.[/quote]

I wanted to ask the same thing.  Coaches would be working 4-5 hours in the morning before the pool opens and then come back and work 5 to 8 pm? We have two head coaches and six lane coaches in the morning.  I can't imagine being able to afford an evening cadre as well without doubling our fees.  Even as it stands now we have to do a LOT of fundraising to pay our coaches.[/quote]

Well, the SAH parents will just have have their fees doubled, I guess.   [b]After all "working families" have spoken.  It's all about them.[/b][/quote]

DP and no one is arguing the bolded.  We're saying that summer swim teams, at least if they want to have swimmers, need to take into account the families they aim to serve.  These families are also pool members, and what's to stop them from switching to a pool that doesn't pretend to live in the 1950s if people ignore them?

As for the coaching hours: our team has one head coach, several older associate coaches, and a bunch of junior coaches.  Between them, they cover the practices.

Seriously, where in the DC area do most community pools serve solely families with a stay at home parent?  Why on earth would they NOT consider offering multiple practice times to accommodate families with two working parents or a single parent?  [/quote]

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