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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I think we belong to the same pool and I agree, it’s ridiculous. At our old neighborhood pool, it was much better so it’s very pool dependent.  I have older kids now and I’ve learned to deal with it. We tend to go when we know there are away meets or times after the meets at our pool when it’s empty. IF they put out the schedule. That’s my biggest issue with the pool—they don’t update the online calendar and they only send out notices half of the time. They are terrible communicators and planners. This week alone, they are closing the pool early for swim related stuff. Plan better—at least spread it out. But as others have said, the board is made up of swim parents so they don’t care. Which is why I refuse to give one minute of my time to volunteer for the pool.

In any case, I have a lot of friends who have swim and dive team kids and the drama between the two teams, with the pool, among the kids and parents is nuts. It makes me glad my kids never wanted to be involved. The intensity is just too much. It’s summer swim, not the Olympics. [/quote]

Ohhhh I bet we do belong to the same pool! It’s funny because we know some swim team families who are very nice people and seem a little exasperated by all of it too so I wonder how much is being driven by a handful of very intense people/families. It seems to me that even more than thinking their kids will make it to the Olympics it’s about making the teams this very big and hierarchical social thing. I love our neighborhood but there are definitely some parents who still seem to have a high school mentality about popularity (hence some of the drama you referenced…)[/quote]

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