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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What’s with the obsessive swim team crap? What a waste of time. I grew up in the south and had never heard of swim team.  Why not just let kids be kids and swim for fun rather than impose all this structured “swim team” nonsense on them? [/quote]

Clearly you’re not from around here! Swim team is a cultural/community activity in this region. It’s my one of my kids favorite things, huge source of community in our neighborhood, and the thing they will remember about their childhood summers. Yes, it’s swimming laps, but also making skits, and having donut parties, and making plans with a big group of kids - their age, younger, and older to have fun all day at the pool. The swimming sometimes feels peripheral. It can be hard for working parents to pull off and their kids miss out on what often is the summer focus of all their friends. Luckily our pool is pretty working-parent friendly because by age 8 or so my kids were insisting that summer plans, including camps and vacations, be planned around the swim team schedule. That’s not to say there aren’t other ways kids can have great summers, but around here there’s definitely a reason families try to prioritize it. A good portion of my adult friends are swim team families and it’s definitely the summer social nexus for neighborhood kids into high school.[/quote]

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