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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Options A and B-no way. So they shortened summer last year and want to shorten it again this year? Wow. That's harsh.  Kids in sports and band would start camps a week earlier-that means near the end of July? Weather can't always been depended on in early June. We like to buy a pool membership but probably would not if options A or B were chosen.  We would barely make use of it. It was bad enough they started before Labor Day this year. It was tough for my kids and a lot of other kids I know.[/quote]

The pools are empty in Augist.[/quote]

Not that pool use should be the metric -- but they are empty in August because (1) everyone has had enough swim time by then and it's old news, and (2) many people leave town for vacations in Aug b/c Congress shuts down.  So, yes, pools are generally not very full in Aug.  People are excited about summer in June/right after Memorial Day.  By August, they are looking toward the next thing and summer is a has-been.[/quote]

The pools are packed in June and empty in August.

Pools are not going to lose any business by fcps starting mid August[/quote]

Somebody upthread said they wouldn’t join if the season was shortened.

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That person is just like the actors who said  they are moving to Canada when Trump won.

They will still join the pool. Because, well, swim team.[/quote]

It is not the swim team parents who won't join. Its the people not on the swim team but who just use the pool. Less people renting and owning translates into less people paying for the pool which translates into less maintenance and pools closing. It's possible they could move up the entire swim team calendar to allow for a July-August rental after swim team, but then the kids get one less week to practice so that will not be popular either. [b]Plus most kids that staff pools are high schoolers who then won't be able to staff the pool in August[/b]. The pools already open up on Memorial Day and the weather isn't warm enough to typically open earlier.[/quote]

REALLY??? don't those same High schooler staff the pool in June as we have it now?  They just open the pools at 3:00 and close at 8:00.  They can do the same thing if school starts Aug. 23rd.  Pools are open in the evening for a week (plus all day on the weekend.)  Not such a hard problem to solve.

The solvency of your private swim club is not more important than the education of 190,000 kids. [/quote]

College students get most of the hours in June. The high schoolers traditionally gain more hours in August when college students go back to school and pool hours are 11-8 or so.[/quote]

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