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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I show up to meets but am in the back on my laptop catching up on work. Sorry. That’s the price I pay because the hours of practice are during normal working hours. [/quote]
Geez. You work like every other parent?[/quote]
<shrug>. Our team is 90% SAHM or PT families. I don’t think that’s coincidence. [/quote]
I’m calling BS on this. This isn’t the 1950s.[/quote]
Many of ours are teachers. They work, just not in the summer. Most other sports have evening practice, poster makes a good point. [/quote]

Not really. Meets are in evenings and weekends, just like all other sports. Those are when the volunteer hours are needed. Or, as another parent pointed out, there are plenty of other volunteer jobs that a parent can do "behind the scenes" on their own time, whenever they can fit it in. All you have to do is email your team's volunteer coordinator.

Yes, there are more SAHM and PT moms at practices, and I also see grandparents and nannies taking care of drop-off/pick-up for practices for FT working moms/dads. Again, that has nothing to do with volunteer hours.[/quote]

Oh, and before some smart ass responds with "your privilege is showing" or something to that effect, it's quite cheap to pay a HS or college kid to take care of running your kid to practice a few days per week. That, or share a carpool with another working parent. Super cheap and easy.

PP just sounds like a slacker looking for excuses.[/quote]
You are demonstrating how exclusive summer swim is with the daytime practices and volunteering. If you are fortunate enough to work for home hiring help [i]might[/i] work, but it's an added expense and strategizing.  [/quote]

There are afternoon practices for those that can’t come during the day. Let’s be real…it’s a summer swim team associated with a private pool club. If you belong to that pool, you’re already part of an exclusive club and are privileged.

If you can’t volunteer, don’t do the team. Period. [/quote]

Maybe your pool is private and members only, but a lot of suburbs have community swim teams that use the HOA pool. We are by no means an exclusive club and neither are the many teams we play.

As far as exclusivity goes with the timing, yes it isn't ideal. But we have plenty of working parents on our team. They take turns carpooling, or their kid only comes to some practices, or they ask grandma to handle practice drop off/pick up, or they hire a cheap nanny or mother's helper to cart their kid to/from swimming practice. It's not ideal, but they arrange it so that they can work their normal(ish) hours for the six weeks of summer swim AND volunteer some at the meets.

I'll say it again, the previous poster is full of excuses. As the subject says, freeloading swim team parents suck.[/quote]

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