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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Half hour private piano lessons run around $35. That's close to $2000 if you have a lesson every week and it's only for 1/2 hour a time.  Kumon I think runs around the same amount every week. I don't get why people think swimming is so much more expensive or that others don't invest in the arts. Swimming makes you fit and keeps you healthy. Neither art nor math really does anything for your body.  I do not think Kumon math or Math Counts is really a life safety skill either. School is all about sitting all day and using your brain. Shouldn't we use the rest of our bodies too? I remember listening to one podcast where college professors were described as only living in their heads.[/quote]

Most swimmers involved in the year-round swim clubs are paying far north of $2,000/year.  The average is probably closer to $3,500/year if I had to guess.  That it is the cost per child, per year.  The family of a competitive swimmer who sticks with club swimming for ten years will have paid close to $35,000, and again if your family has more than one child you could be looking at $70,000-$100,000 investment over their lifetime of swimming.  That kind of commitment is certainly worth it if your child excels at the sport, but perhaps not worth it if your swimmer is the average, good, or solid swimmer.

Again, if you want your child to swim only so that it "makes them fit or keeps them healthy" (i.e., primarily for recreational or social purposes), then there are far more cost-effective ways to do so than committing $35,000 to club swimming over your DC's childhood years.

If you do not think that is a substantial investment of money then I do not know what to say.[/quote]

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