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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is sadly probably a working parent issue. Swim team was historically only SAHM because of practice times, but now with more telework you are getting more working parents.

But working parents would VASTLY prefer to pay hire fees and simply hire refs and timers and upgrade equipment than squander their limited non-work hours doing swim martyr duty.

Cultural divide. [/quote]

The opt out fee would be insanely expensive, though. Our pool had ten lanes. That's thirty timers for every A and B meet.[/quote]

There are hundreds of team members. You are talking probably $100 a summer. 100% of working parents would pay that to free their weekends. Most SAHM can afford because they have breadwinner (hence why they don’t work)[/quote]

umm- I'm a working parent.  An extremely hard working parent.  Volunteering at meets my kids are swimming in is not hard- its fun.  I would never pay an opt out fee to avoid volunteering.  I'm at the meet- might as well volunteer.[/quote]

I'm one of the working parents who signed a kid up for swim team for the first time this year.  Maybe I'm the problem? I don't know.  I can volunteer for things that start after 6pm.  While I'm teleworking, I can be around during the day, but I'll the one working on my laptop from the pavilion at 9:30 every morning while my kid practices.  Arriving at 4:30 for the "officials meeting" then sitting at the table for an hour waiting for the meet to start isn't going to work. So I sign up for jobs that don't require that, but they are few and far between.

I think you'd have a lot more volunteers if you were willing to accommodate various schedules.  I've done some 'split shifts' with SAH parents of young kids who want to arrive at 4:30 and leave when their 6yo finishes at 7pm - I take over then - but some volunteer organizers get annoyed at having swap-outs halfway through the meet.  How many more volunteers would you get if people could sign up for either a 4:30-7 shift or a 6:30-9:30? SAH parents of younger kids would take the former, working parents of older kids would take the latter.  Parents who can stay all night could continue to do so, but at least they'd have some help from those who can't.[/quote]

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