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I mean it sounds like the tax-supported spending on the swim center is really minimal and must be a tiny fraction of any given resident's city taxes but maybe I am wrong.[/quote]

We don't like the service though.  The teams are dominated by non-resident elite freeloaders and the pools are like swimming in snot during the winter.

If MOCO can shut down KSAC why can't we shutdown RSFC?   Mary Antoinette: "Let them swim at Olney".[/quote]

They didn't shut down KSAC, they are spending millions to renovate it.  You will be welcome there once they are finished - it should be nice.[/quote]

That is a long time for kiddos.  OOps sorry drive to Silver Spring they built two facilities there.  Keep in mind my daughter already missed out on a year and a half or two years of swimming from Covid.  Not just my kiddo either.  USA Swimming lost like 18,000 swimmers.  It was really obvious who was able to "get in" to the competitive programs early, because everyone else was high and dry.

https://swimswam.com/usa-swimming-membership-declines-4-6-in-2023-after-promising-post-pandemic-growth-in-2022/

Is she going to be able to make RMSC in two years.  I don't think so.  Curse of the crummy coach strikes again.  Way to keep the troll on a roll.  [/quote]

Your daughter did not miss two years due to Covid and Covid was what 4 years ago.  No one can say if your daughter will get in. Rockville is the hardest. [/quote]

Yeah, kids were wearing masks at school we didn't think to take her to the pool even if it were open.  Little kindergarteners, it was sad.  I hope that makes sense.  Clearly to the elites amongst us who were practicing at the pool nearly the entire time it doesn't.  We were hanging out at the park.  She could do monkey bars two by two forward and backward.  Skin-the-cats, German hangs etc.  I put up gym rings in our foyer.  Even then, I am not from around here so summer leagues are new to me.  I asked at KSAC about teams ("Did you try the stroke and turn clinic"), I met guy at the barber who does pool maintenance he said, "Get her on a summer league." See how hinky the elites are about their pools.  I was at the pool and asking about these things, and all they could say was take this class, which by the way won't even get you into RMSC.  So yeah, it took us two years to get back into swimming after Covid.[/quote]

You mean she did not start swim till two years ago.  You are really nasty.    Many kids start much younger than k.   After minis there are very few spots.  [/quote]

I took her to the pool at six months, I had her in a swim school by two, she could do a freestyle at 3.. then Covid.  She completely forgot how to swim, we had to start over.  [/quote]

It sounds like it was more of a priority issue - it just wasn't a priority for you at that time.  We all make choices, we can't do/participate in everything all the time.

But, having said that, I think it unrealistic to think that you can completely change the entire system to suit your particular corner-case situation; not to mention it's not a particularly productive or healthy mindset example for your daughter.

If she really wants to swim over the winter, rather than waste time on an option that isn't on the table right now, you should be pursuing options/avenues that are.
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I'm glad you brought up how my daughter thinks and feels.  She generally appreciates it when I stick up for her.  We had an incident in soccer where one of the coaches' kids were getting away with dirty plays.  We pulled her from the program, money back thank you very much.

Any way daughter knew she was getting the rough end of the stick at the tryouts when they made her jump off the racing blocks, but they didn't make anyone else.  After RSFC RMSC started having private tryouts a few weeks before official public tryouts, and we were at the pool doing our lap swim right next to the coaches doing private lessons.  I pointed out to her that they were doing that because they were being anti-competitive they were afraid of her and didn't want her on the team they were making her jump through excessive hoops and giving other kids privileges.  I pointed to coaches and told her to get a good look at fraud.  Life lessons, priceless.  They later had to restructure their private tryouts, but do you think they appreciated that I turned them in or made them do that.  No.

This team needs to be defunded.
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I am not for closing the pool down, but like you I am for defunding the Rays and cracking down on their shady dealings. [/quote]

Wait!! Is this the rays troll?!! 😂 [/quote]

No, this is a different person... but similar with unrealistic views/expectations.

They are clearly new(er) to swimming and just beginning to figure out how things work.  They are realizing now that their lack of prioritizing swimming a few years ago means that their daughter isn't quite good enough WRT her peers trying out to get selected at Rockville or at KSAC and rather than understand that it is what it is and accept this(can't go back in time), they are stuck ruminating about RSFC and RMSC operations and blaming them for their shortcomings.

There are plenty of things they could do now and focus on to better their chance in making the team in the future but they don't seem keen on any of that.

Regardless, DCUM is here for them 24/7/365 so they have that going for them.

Hope this helps, let me know if you have any further questions.

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Rays is an annoying organization and has uncomfortable relations with RMSC.  All the RMSC parents walk around and ask, but is she in RMSC?  I don't understand why they run the RMSC kids in the Rays summer league.  However, I will say, my daughter's seed times were better than a number of RMSC kids in freestyle and butterfly and in a number of races she beat girls that were swimming four five days a weak all year.

Underwhelmed.

One solution I can think of.  Is to fire the coaching staff.  Raise the non-resident rates to be consistent with other private programs.  Use the proceeds to hire better coaches.  Win Win![/quote]

You are really bizzare.  Anyone can join the rays?   Did you do it this summer?[/quote]

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