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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our team is thinking of instituting a point system for volunteering and I am trying to understand how this works.

I have two Qs:

For your team, what are the consequences of not earning sufficient volunteer points?

For your team, is there an option to buy out the points - just pay a certain amount per point maybe? I have no judgement on this as an option. Just wondering how it works since it’s part of the proposal for our team for next summer.

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Theoretically the consequence is that registration is blocked the next year, but the Board and manager never have the heart to block registrations. And some families take advantages of that policy by not volunteering when they know it’s their kids’ last summer of competing.

No matter what our board and team has tried, the reality is that some people step up and some will always think their excuse for not being available is more valid than anyone else’s. My favorite as rep was when someone would time a lane during a shift they’d signed up for. They said “I actually can’t to it because I want to watch my kid swim.”

I still wonder if they were curious why the rest of us parents were there if not to watch our kids swim![/quote]

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