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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.

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".

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.

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.

Well, statistically speaking, if those declining trends continue, your daughter will have a better chance if she sticks around and continues to improve, so there's that.

That is what happened this summer at the A meets. I was trying to figure out how she could be making the Division A A-meets, when her times were a second to two seconds slower than last years eight-year-olds. Oh they're all like that. I was able to get her in the pools KSAC, RSFC, Olney get enough practice in during public swim times, read some books. I just don't think that is going to happen this year with KSAC closed. It's just going to be too crowded and gross. We'll probably just do basketball. Such is life, but that $400,000 per year tax subsidy could be used for something else maybe build a gym hire professional basketball coaches or something besides funding the elitist non-residents spa.

Your kid swimming a meets means nothing. Ksac is closed but they were moved and a new pol was open. You could have also tried out for germantown.

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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.

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".

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.

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.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:Your child can take classes at the pool. They don’t have a right to be on swim team.

So that is a vote for canceling funding for RSFC then.

If you use the legacy facility name, RMSC, you can have my vote.

RMSC is a non-for profit Rockville Montgomery County Swim Club. RSFC is the Rockville Swim and Fitness Center. RMSC is a non-for-profit that contracts various sites in the county and city of Rockville to run their swim club. One of the sites is RSFC all the other sites until recently were run by Montgomery County. Recently Kennedy Shriver (KSAC) closed for maintenance and the swimmers at KSAC don't want to go to Silver Spring(who does really), so they contracted with Montgomery College in addition, or so I have been told. Though, it seems like I have seen the coaches/swimmers from KSAC turning up at RSFC.

The thing about how the way RMSC contracts is they get pool monopolies, so they pretty much control the pools they contract with. Other facilities like George Town Prep have multiple teams contracting the facilities, so the pools have more control. I have seen the term Pool Commies used. People like the idea communism, until they have to share a bathroom with a commune.

It is strange I don't think there is anything quite like RSFC around. Bethesda, Silver Spring, Germantown et al even Nova don't have city pools, why should Rockville?

It's not like people look down their noses at Bethesda because the city doesn't have nice indoor public pool. We would be fine without it. I personally wished we had a nice YMCA like Bethesda instead, I hear they are better and cheaper.

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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.

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".

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.

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.

Well, statistically speaking, if those declining trends continue, your daughter will have a better chance if she sticks around and continues to improve, so there's that.

That is what happened this summer at the A meets. I was trying to figure out how she could be making the Division A A-meets, when her times were a second to two seconds slower than last years eight-year-olds. Oh they're all like that. I was able to get her in the pools KSAC, RSFC, Olney get enough practice in during public swim times, read some books. I just don't think that is going to happen this year with KSAC closed. It's just going to be too crowded and gross. We'll probably just do basketball. Such is life, but that $400,000 per year tax subsidy could be used for something else maybe build a gym hire professional basketball coaches or something besides funding the elitist non-residents spa.

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Anonymous wrote:Your child can take classes at the pool. They don’t have a right to be on swim team.

So that is a vote for canceling funding for RSFC then.

If you use the legacy facility name, RMSC, you can have my vote.

Anonymous wrote:Your child can take classes at the pool. They don’t have a right to be on swim team.

So that is a vote for canceling funding for RSFC then.

Your child can take classes at the pool. They don’t have a right to be on swim team.

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

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".

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.

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.

Well, statistically speaking, if those declining trends continue, your daughter will have a better chance if she sticks around and continues to improve, so there's that.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

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".

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.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

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".

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.

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Anonymous wrote:It's interesting though, the trend of NCAP leaving for RMSC is documented here:
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/90/1214467.page

I had sort of suspected that that was why they were getting away with having kids do racing dives. The kids were defecting from private groups to RMSC and had already been in year round programs, in addition to the private lessons that were going on.

Anyway, it adds more evidence that the Rockville pool is being taking advantage of by non-residents for the low cost.

OP, what’s your beef? Non-resident “taking advantage” of Rockville pool? Really. Do you hear yourself? Kids, county or city are trying to learn how to swim and you are making it sound like we, county residents are trying to trick Rockville pool into letting us take lessons and use the pool. Rockville pool will not survive if it is JUST for city residents.

Is your issue with RMSC? Did your kid not get in? If RMSC coaches are not doing things that you approved of, you can always go to another club. That’s one way you can “show” Rockville by just joining another club, going to another summer swim team.

Thats it you win. I am moving to the country. HOA/Country club fees will be way less than my taxes and I'll be able to use the pool anytime. If I want a competitive team, I'll drive like everyone else. So much for convenience.

I’d start with a therapist.

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

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".

Raising the price for RMSC Rockville wouldn’t be crazy. The swimmers are not freeloaders, they still pay thousands per year. What good would shutting down the down center do?

What good is a pool my kid can't swim in? They denied my kid the right to swim in the Rockville pool. If these swim coaches can't be brought to heel, then we need to rethink funding these places.

They only have so many spots. If they are full they are full. The coaches don’t decide how many make it.

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Anonymous wrote:It's interesting though, the trend of NCAP leaving for RMSC is documented here:
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/90/1214467.page

I had sort of suspected that that was why they were getting away with having kids do racing dives. The kids were defecting from private groups to RMSC and had already been in year round programs, in addition to the private lessons that were going on.

Anyway, it adds more evidence that the Rockville pool is being taking advantage of by non-residents for the low cost.

OP, what’s your beef? Non-resident “taking advantage” of Rockville pool? Really. Do you hear yourself? Kids, county or city are trying to learn how to swim and you are making it sound like we, county residents are trying to trick Rockville pool into letting us take lessons and use the pool. Rockville pool will not survive if it is JUST for city residents.

Is your issue with RMSC? Did your kid not get in? If RMSC coaches are not doing things that you approved of, you can always go to another club. That’s one way you can “show” Rockville by just joining another club, going to another summer swim team.

Thats it you win. I am moving to the country. HOA/Country club fees will be way less than my taxes and I'll be able to use the pool anytime. If I want a competitive team, I'll drive like everyone else. So much for convenience.

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

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".

Well you are paying about $6 per year on it in taxes. Essentially nothing so go use your dollars to pay for a private pool.

Lets pretend you have a pool, and I am the best swimmer ever, and I have taken up residence, and have decided that you shall not swim in it. Gods gift to you, do you feel enlightened now?

I say unto thee go pay for a private pool, and all was well AHHHHH.

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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.

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".

Well you are paying about $6 per year on it in taxes. Essentially nothing so go use your dollars to pay for a private pool.