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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]TBH post COVID less and less families esp w younger kids help out. We see the same group of people pitching in
No one hides it that we need volunteers but it is frustrating to watch the same families do nothing while everyone else is stepping up. These are also the same people who don’t read emails and require tons of handholding from very exhausted team reps. I say make them pay [/quote]

What is the “old guard” doing to welcome these families in? I’m sure plenty of them would help. No need to generalize. Maybe they are unsure, or intimidated, or lazy. Maybe the old guard is taking all the good shifts and tasks, leaving the new people with the crap. [/quote]

What we've always done- reach out to the parents of the young kids in winter swim and the fast kids. Try to get the later into the former category and try to get those parents to volunteer. We're not wasting time training parents whose kids will probably drop in a year, but if we can get those parents with kids more likely to stick involved, the team will continue to have enough volunteers. It's worked for decades and is still working. [/quote]

You sound nice[/quote]

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