Look, I'm telling you this from my perspective as someone who tried to do the exact thing you're saying. If those things stressed me out as an adult who knows about swimming, and crucially prevented me from signing up my kids for swimming lessons at the Y, then it is going to be even more true for people who are low income and not knowledgeable. These are real barriers. Acting like they're not is just putting our collective head in the sand and letting the problem perpetuate.

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kortilla 4 days ago | parent [-]

Your barrier sounds like some other anxiety issue unrelated to economic status.

You know how important swimming lessons are and yet just gave up and skipped it entirely? Or are you actually privileged and had other swimming lesson options for your kid and just didn’t want to bother with the affordable system’s constraints?

Lots of lower middle class/poor including me when I was growing up went to this without a problem. 25 cent public bus ride with mom was an adventure

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KittenInABox 4 days ago | parent [-]

How long are you from being poor? Are you poor now? Did you raise a child while poor within the last 5 years?

Public bus rides in my area are 9x your cost, and 4x that cost for elderly people.

	▲	kortilla 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Public bus rides cost proportionately the same to min wage in California if that helps. The Y and the bus haven’t turned into upscale things if that’s the point you’re trying to make.