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Swim teacher correcting daughter's stroke more than other children's

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Maiasaurax · 08/01/2025 11:07

I recently moved my daughter to a different swim school. She had nearly completed stage 6 at the previous swim school. She also swims with a swimming club. She had an assessment to see which level she would be at the new school and was assessed as Stage 7. Teacher commented at the assessment that she is a very good swimmer for her age (8 at the time of assessment and has just turned 9). She also said as Stage 6 still swim widths and my daughter is lane swimming with swimming club she didn't think there was much point putting her there. She has the teacher that did the assessment for her lessons. She is younger than the others in her lesson and is a fair bit smaller both in height and build. Despite this she manages to keep up with them. I have noticed though, the teacher pulls her to one side and corrects her stroke much more than the other children. I know her strokes aren't perfect and I am not complaining about this at all, as it is after all why I pay for lessons. Some of the other children aren't being corrected at all though, while my daughter is a number of times a lesson. I am wondering if it's a simple matter of my daughter has more flaws in her strokes and that is why she is being corrected more? Or if there is something else. I know nobody but her swimming teacher can definitively answer that. Just wondered what other people's thoughts on this would be.

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Gizlotsmum · 08/01/2025 11:32

I think the question is if the correction is constructive. It might be your daughter is worse than others it might be she has real potential and needs to finesse areas. If you are really concerned could you ask the teacher?

DaisyChain505 · 08/01/2025 11:30

Swimming teacher teaches child to swim….shocking.

Puppupandaway · 08/01/2025 11:20

Maybe your daughter has picked up some bad habits from the previous teacher and so needs correcting more than the children who I presume have been in the teacher's group a while. If it was still happening in six months I'd think it was odd but if she's new to the established group I'd think it was to help her catch up with the others.

Switcher · 08/01/2025 11:19

Well done, your child is amazing. 😏

Catlord · 08/01/2025 11:17

It sounds like she's somewhat 'in between' the two classes and rather than hold her back, the teacher is giving her extra attention to make sure she's up to speed with the higher one.

Is her manner constructive and kind, or short? If it's not a pleasant experience and is ongoing, probably consider discussing whether it's the correct level again, but if she's advising her in way that helps her confidence then let it pan out and explain to DD that she's moved to this swimming school and sometimes the levels in different schools don't exactly match up, so it's not her, she just needs a bit of extra coaching.

Jaapssthia · 08/01/2025 11:09

I’d be delighted. She’s getting lots of help to be a better swimmer!

Newhi · 08/01/2025 11:09

Maybe she sees your daughter has potential and wants her to learn properly and not develop bad habits. As long as it’s constructive I would be over the moon if my daughter got that sort of personal attention in a class.

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