Anonymous wrote:What is the problem they are trying to fix? I thought most groups were smaller than 20 so they should already be meeting the requirements.

My child's group got LARGER, not smaller and it's all mixed up. It was safer when my child was with a fixed group each week and now there are new kids in this group.

How is this resonable?

Only if they were the only group at the pool at the time.

Anonymous wrote:Jrs 2 is cut down to 90 minutes. Advanced Jr is only 2.25 hour in the week. Those are not enough practice for advanced swimmers that usual get 7.

Please keep in mind that pre-Covid, most groups had more practices available than required/recommended to allow for schedule flexibility. That is a perk we had with RMSC that many clubs do not offer. I have had swimmers who started in minis and now are in advanced groups. Neither of my children regularly went to a 4th advanced junior practice, and therefore generally practiced less than 5h per week. I think the reductions we are seeing now are all based on a standard % of the required/recommended practice time not what we all remember of pre-Covid available practice time.

It is disappointing to have limited practice time now, but it's the hand we are currently dealt. Based on what I've seen across groups I know kids in, I believe RMSC got a lot of priority in pool time (vs. community use) with the current limits.

My kid’s group also got larger, I assume that’s because they will be the only group there, taking up both pools. Interestingly, they must have gotten some kind of waiver because there are 25 swimmers in my kid’s group, which means once you add in coaches, lifeguards and the pool operator you obviously exceed the 25 person limit.

regular juniors is cut down to 50 minutes. 50 minutes! one time a week and the groups are larger.
wtf

What is the problem they are trying to fix? I thought most groups were smaller than 20 so they should already be meeting the requirements.

My child's group got LARGER, not smaller and it's all mixed up. It was safer when my child was with a fixed group each week and now there are new kids in this group.

How is this resonable?

Jrs 2 is cut down to 90 minutes. Advanced Jr is only 2.25 hour in the week. Those are not enough practice for advanced swimmers that usual get 7.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one knows the new schedule yet.

Please contact the county council and urge them to consider the Aquatic centers as fitness centers and apply the 25% capacity restriction. The limitation to 25 people in buildings the size of the county pools is absurd.

This!!

+1

Anonymous wrote:Our days, times and location (one day) is not at our hone pool. I appreciate the effort they are making to keep the kids in the water even though my kid will be missing at least one of the 3 practices (his groups l should have 5). The time logically have to change at the KSAC due to the new restrictions.

Did they ask you or just tell you. If you are reduced from 5 to 3, we'll be reduced from 4 to 1-2 which means the regular kids will barely be swimming and never really progress.

Our days, times and location (one day) is not at our hone pool. I appreciate the effort they are making to keep the kids in the water even though my kid will be missing at least one of the 3 practices (his groups l should have 5). The time logically have to change at the KSAC due to the new restrictions.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:New schedule is released. Days and hours cut down for every groups including advanced.

Even better, my kid is having to go to MLK instead of KSAC for one of her two practices

Interesting.

I’m fine w/ the new schedule. Just thankful they are still able to swim regularly a couple times a week. Hope it can continue over winter.

Two days a week isn't much when normal is supposed to be 4 days a week. We were already cut from 4 to 3 and reduced time in each session so at some point 1-2 days a week doesn't seem worth it for the cost. We haven't been told anything but from what it sounds like on here we are the last to hear from our coach.

Did they offer to change or did they tell you you were changing locations? The last time they assigned us a group and we asked specifically not to have that group. With school and activities if its during the week, that's going to be an issue if they change times/locations as we already rearranged our schedule including changing other activities and cannot keep doing it every few months when they decide to change without discussion or notice.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:New schedule is released. Days and hours cut down for every groups including advanced.

Even better, my kid is having to go to MLK instead of KSAC for one of her two practices

Interesting.

I’m fine w/ the new schedule. Just thankful they are still able to swim regularly a couple times a week. Hope it can continue over winter.

Anonymous wrote:New schedule is released. Days and hours cut down for every groups including advanced.

Even better, my kid is having to go to MLK instead of KSAC for one of her two practices

New schedule is released. Days and hours cut down for every groups including advanced.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one knows the new schedule yet.

Please contact the county council and urge them to consider the Aquatic centers as fitness centers and apply the 25% capacity restriction. The limitation to 25 people in buildings the size of the county pools is absurd.

The problem with calling the pool a “fitness center” is that those guidelines require the use of masks all the time, which is obviously not possible at the pool.

For the record, I am comfortable with RMSC’s protocol to date and limiting a building like KSAC or GISC to 25 people total is absurd.

Swimming is excluded from mask requirements, obviously (Lifetime, YMCA, JCC, One Life... any other fitness center with pool)

The kids are wearing masks at the pool deck, just not in the pool. Ours are limited to 2-3 kids per lane and very small group sizes. Our pool has two pools running so 25 people makes no sense with two pools. And, I am very covid concerned.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one knows the new schedule yet.

Please contact the county council and urge them to consider the Aquatic centers as fitness centers and apply the 25% capacity restriction. The limitation to 25 people in buildings the size of the county pools is absurd.

The problem with calling the pool a “fitness center” is that those guidelines require the use of masks all the time, which is obviously not possible at the pool.

For the record, I am comfortable with RMSC’s protocol to date and limiting a building like KSAC or GISC to 25 people total is absurd.

+1, totally comfortable with how they have been handling practices - assigned lanes, limited kids overall, masks on out of the pool, gear is kept by the lane, separate entrances/exits and no congregating.

We don't have assigned lanes and kids switch up each practice but they have been handling it well overall.