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Originally Posted by sleepingmoose
Back then you actually could 'fail'. Nowadays, no one is checking to see if you actually have the prerequisite for lessons. My kid was in a Swimmer 5 class (probably equivalent to blue or green), and one kid couldn't even swim one length of the pool without needing to be "rescued" by the instructor.
Turns out her parents put her in the class because her sister was in it, and they didn't want to wait around for two different lesson times - she hadn't gone through any of the lower levels. They couldn't send her back down to another level, so all the kids that were actually in the appropriate class spent half the time waiting at the edge of the pool waiting for this kid, and for the instructor to help her.
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Weird... I think this must come down to the facility or even the individual instructors.
My kids all took swim lessons this summer and we had to provide their previous 'report cards' to make sure they were in the appropriate class(es).
And FWIW, my daughter did fail a class. We re-registered the next week, she marched in there, passed the level she failed the previous week and even passed the next level.
I know another kid failed at the same time my daughter did and on our way out, could hear the mother, um,
urging the instructor to pass them. Kids can fail and learn from it, but they have to be allowed to fail in the first place.