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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1 practice 3 days a week of mixed ages in the evening is not the equivalent to 5 day a week morning practice all at the same age.  Its why a lot of two parent working families, even at pools that have an 'evening practice' option often try to figure out how to go to morning practice.   
I think the ultimate answer is that pools are set up differently.  My pool is a closer in pool, we have 1 pool, have a long waiting list of members, and quite frankly don't want 175 kids on the swim team.  The evening practices after school are hard on the membership.  Could we set up 2 lanes for a few kids in the evenings for 1 hour a few days a week?  Sure- we could do that- it wouldn't have a huge impact, but it would be a lot of additional work and management for the pool volunteers, and the kids wouldn't get nearly the same experience as those coming to morning practice.  Could we run the equivalent of the morning age group practices in the evenings- eg three hours of practice with 6 lanes, etc?  absolutely not- we would have a membership revolt.  
Now- a pool or team that is short members, and has a dedicated lap pool?  totally different set of considerations.
I don't think there is a nefarious intent to either 'discriminate' against working families or 'favor' stay at home moms- different things work for different people, a summer pool can't be all things to all people.[/quote]

We think it's better than nothing.  [/quote]

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