More on the Pool Time Changes

 A new link, from Channel 3.  This is something of a first world problem, to be sure.  Still, when someone tells you something, and then goes back on what is said, that's a problem.  They aren't being honest with you.  You expect honesty from the YMCA.

So, the after-school practices at the West Y, populated by Y Members, are shifted all the way over to the East Y.  This is at Cottage Grove Road and Hwy 51.  On a good day, 20 minutes of driving.  This presumes that your kid is ready to go right as they are dismissed from school.  That never happens (I have to wonder if the Executive Board who made this decision actually has kids in middle school).

High Schoolers get to swim at 5:15 AM -- requiring a parent to drive them there.  They are out of practice at 7 AM.  Classes start at, say, Edgewood just after 7:30.  So in that 30 minutes, the student has to shower, change, eat, drive 15 minutes to Edgewood, find a place to park (or be dropped off).  If you are a parent and have to be at work at 7:30?  (Like, say, a teacher?)  Tough.  Find someone to take your kid.  (Let's just ignore the ridiculous notion that high schoolers will get up before 5 for swim practice).

Again, these changes have been sprung without warning on the entire team, after having been finalized a long time ago.  Why the delay?  Why not tell us when we are signing up for swim team that the possibility existed for such an extremely intrusive change?

In other words, why don't we have HONESTY from an Executive Director of an organization for which four values are HONESTY, CARING, RESPONSIBILITY and RESPECT?