Disney1fan2002
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My 3 children take swiiming lesson's at the local Y. My older two are in the same swim class, while my little guy takes a pre-school class. (small brag, he got his certificate yesterday, and because he is going into 1st grade, he moves to the youth class, she skipped a whole level for him. So, he is only 2 levels behind his brother and sister 
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Anyway, my DS is not the best swimmer in the family. he can swim, but he tires out easy and he does not have good form, he is sloppy. Every level he moves into, he usually has to retake it once. My DD, 2 years younger, is a natural swimmer. She would of moved up last session, but I put her back in the same level, because the higher levels have a limited amount of classes, and there were none I could get her to, so by keeping her back, her brother caught up.
This session, a neighbor's boy was in the kids swim class. I was very surprised, because he doesn't even have the basic skills for the lower levels. He can't float on his back, and he refuses to put his face in the water for rotary breathing. He slows the class down tremendously, because he is always taking up the rear, and it takes him forever to swim the length of the pool, because he keeps having to stop and catch his breath. He can't dive, he belly flops each time.
My DS, has better skills than him, but IMO, not enough to move up. Since this was his 1st session at this level, I was fully expecting a certificate telling me to repeat the level. The teacher handed out the certificates last night. I drove the neighbor boy, so I got his certificate, all the kids are moving up.
WOW!!! If I was surprised my kid is moving up, I was FLOORED to see him moving up.
Here is where it gets goods. See, when i saw all the certificates, and everyone was moving up, I decided that the teacher really did not care what level they were at, she moved everyone up, regardless. Lucky for my DS. When I dropped neighbor boy home, I told his mom and dad he was moving up. They were SHOCKED. So, I was like "yeah, I know, I mean my son moved up, so she must of just advanced everyone" (making sure I only showed her shock at my own child). What she says?
"Oh well, then I would of been really upset if my son didn't move up."
The way I heard it was, if MY son moved up and hers didn't, she would of been upset.
But, she could of meant being upset at the whole class advancing except hers. But I keep going back to her directing it at the fact that my DS is advancing.
I need to stop thinking about it, but was that out of line for her to say?
)Anyway, my DS is not the best swimmer in the family. he can swim, but he tires out easy and he does not have good form, he is sloppy. Every level he moves into, he usually has to retake it once. My DD, 2 years younger, is a natural swimmer. She would of moved up last session, but I put her back in the same level, because the higher levels have a limited amount of classes, and there were none I could get her to, so by keeping her back, her brother caught up.
This session, a neighbor's boy was in the kids swim class. I was very surprised, because he doesn't even have the basic skills for the lower levels. He can't float on his back, and he refuses to put his face in the water for rotary breathing. He slows the class down tremendously, because he is always taking up the rear, and it takes him forever to swim the length of the pool, because he keeps having to stop and catch his breath. He can't dive, he belly flops each time.
My DS, has better skills than him, but IMO, not enough to move up. Since this was his 1st session at this level, I was fully expecting a certificate telling me to repeat the level. The teacher handed out the certificates last night. I drove the neighbor boy, so I got his certificate, all the kids are moving up.
WOW!!! If I was surprised my kid is moving up, I was FLOORED to see him moving up. Here is where it gets goods. See, when i saw all the certificates, and everyone was moving up, I decided that the teacher really did not care what level they were at, she moved everyone up, regardless. Lucky for my DS. When I dropped neighbor boy home, I told his mom and dad he was moving up. They were SHOCKED. So, I was like "yeah, I know, I mean my son moved up, so she must of just advanced everyone" (making sure I only showed her shock at my own child). What she says?
"Oh well, then I would of been really upset if my son didn't move up."
The way I heard it was, if MY son moved up and hers didn't, she would of been upset.
But, she could of meant being upset at the whole class advancing except hers. But I keep going back to her directing it at the fact that my DS is advancing.
I need to stop thinking about it, but was that out of line for her to say?
What she said.
