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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh yeah and some of the paid coaches at our pool aren’t year round swimmers, but like PP said they’ve been plugged in for years and their parents pretty much run the pool.

I just wish I’d learned this up front instead of getting our hopes up. [/quote]

Our pool interviews for summer positions when college kids are home on spring break. The spots at our pool have been filled by mid-April. Our pool has been open for 3 weeks and we’re on the 3rd week of summer swim team practices.

If you have been at your pool, just not active, why are you complaining about this now in June? [/quote]

Because in April when the coach spots got filled, I thought NBD, the kids can volunteer, maybe someday after they do more volunteering they can become coaches. But now I find out it’s hard even to grab onto the bottom rung.[/quote]

So you're saying your teens are not allowed to do any kind of volunteering at all, is that right?[/quote]

It’s not that they aren’t allowed. It’s just that it’s going to be harder to get involved in any structured way where they will know exactly how and when to contribute, and for my ND brain, that is hard to navigate. One of my swimmers has said they are willing to help in any way, but may need some help getting started. For my other swimmer who really truly wants to coach (not just limited to summer team) it is harder, especially since their friends are all coaching and they just aren’t sure where they fit in. [/quote]

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