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I understand the need for the breaks. But if lifeguards don't have to work during the breaks, then do they lifeguards really need to have their own separate breaks? The result is that pools need an extra lifeguard or two at all times. Why can't we say that the breaks for the swimmers are also sufficient breaks for the lifeguards, and then increase pool hours?

Anonymous wrote:I went once when the slides were open but they haven't ever been since. I overheard someone say that the kid pool had some kind of pump issue.

The breaks are annoying but all the DC pools I've been to have them, but not always every hour.

I thought it was a rule that all DC pools had the break every hour? This was put into place after a child drowned a few years ago.

I went once when the slides were open but they haven't ever been since. I overheard someone say that the kid pool had some kind of pump issue.

The breaks are annoying but all the DC pools I've been to have them, but not always every hour.

We live right around the corner and the slides have NEVER been open when I've been there. Not an issue for us because my daughter is too little for the slides, but it is odd. The kiddie pool was always open when we went at the beginning of the summer, but sometime around early July it seemed like it was always closed. I don't get it, and I don't like it because I think the main pool has too many big kids for my 2 year old.

I took my 3-yr-old to the newest, nicest outdoor pool in town, Rosedale, which has a kiddie pool and 3 slides. My little guy was sad that the kiddie pool and slides were all closed. When I asked a lifeguard why they were closed, he said they didn't have enough lifeguards to sit in the 3 lifeguard posts. When I said that there are 2 lifeguards at posts but 3 in the break room, he said that they need more. On top of that, the 15 minute break at the end of each hour is for everyone (not just children) to exit the water, and so all the lifeguards go to the breakroom for 15 minutes of each hour. Has anyone else been to Rosedale and had this experience?

Ken