Seriously pissed off, but dunno if I just forget about it, or complain to the pool.
Paid £100 for course of lessons for ds (5, almost 6).
Today was the last one. I was watching from the cafe through glass screen, so couldn't do anything, as I was landside with dd (16 months). He spent the entire lesson standing at the side of the pool shivering, bar literally 30-40 seconds where he 'swam' about 20m.
Last week wasn't much better.
I challenged the teacher then and she just said he didn't want to get in because he was cold . I pointed out maybe he was cold because he was stood on the side for ages.
If in school a kid can't just say I don't want to do the sums, so the maths teachers says ok, don't do them, or the kid say they don't want to play netball and the PE teacher say, ok no problem. I paid really loads of money for this swim course, and she basically left him to shiver out of the water at the side of the pool.
AIBU? He is only 5, so feel he needs encouragement and maybe even being firmly told to get in the pool and get on with it. Obviously it's more convenient for her to effectively have 1 less pupil to bother about.
Or do I just never take him to swimming lessons again and hope he doesn't drown
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ErnestTheBavarian · 26/10/2009 20:50
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