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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At our pool, the kids who can’t come to morning practice are pretty much locked into a situation where it’s impossible to improve.

There are three lanes for evening practice, 7-8 kids/lane of mixed age groups, and often an indifferent assistant coach who doesn’t want to coach a second practice a day, and little to no instruction.

It’s a real shame but summer swim seems to be really difficult unless you have one stay at home (or remote working) parent or a full time nanny.[/quote]

Interesting. This must be why swim team parents come up with so many stupid volunteer activities like countless events and concessions stands - the SAHMS are looking for ways to make themselves feel useful while shaming the working parents for not volunteering enough. I say this as a non swim team parent at a pool - I observe this dynamic. There is so much useless volunteer work that seems like make-work. And the moms do jobs the teen swimmers should be doing, like setting out chairs the night before.
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We have well over 150 swimmers and almost every single family has two working parents, including the families that fill the most demanding volunteer positions. You’ve posted about SAHMs and “make work” before. I’m sorry that volunteering SAHMs make you feel so lousy, but you’ve created a summer swim narrative that simply isn’t accurate at many pools. Summer swim requires a lot of volunteering; seek to understand the roles before you determine they’re “male work”. And do you really know the employment status of all the volunteers you observe? [/quote]

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