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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My daughter started weekly classes at Kids First when she was five. About a year and a half later, she'd only moved up two levels. They kept saying she needed to "perfect her kick" before they'd move on to the levels that taught strokes. When I realized that she couldn't even tread water, we switched to Goldfish. Within 3 months, she was treading water and able to freestyle 50 yards. By the time we left Goldfish two years later, she was in the swim force class and knew all of the strokes.

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My son also took regular weekly classes with Kids First for about two years and only progressed from level 1 to 3 during that time.  After every session, they would tell us his back kick wasn't perfect so they couldn't move him to the next level.  So for 2 years all he learned (or not even that) was kicking, no hands!  Interestingly, one year into his swim lessons with Kids First, we signed him up for a summer swim team at our pool and he was already able to swim 15-20 ft in freestyle!  It finally occurred to me that they only offer the first four basic levels, so none of their students ever learns to swim unless you enroll them in their very expensive private lessons.  They keep their schedule on paper so that there is no transparency.  If you sign up for private lessons, beware that you can only reschedule 1 out of 6 lessons in a session.  They don't tell you that at sign up.

I wish I had realized this school was not a good choice sooner and didn't waste so much time and money driving there. We talked to another parent there and he was also pulling his kids out due to a similar experience.  [/quote]

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