Seacrest Youth Park And Pool

The only other review makes me feel obligated to post a review.
This pool is great. It is the only outdoor pool in the neighborhood and it is a bit old, but they do a great job hiring young responsible students to work the pool. If you put your kids in lessons you won’t regret it. We have been coming every summer for 5 years.

Their mindless rules make the pool at Secrest Park one of the dumbest public pools on the planet. Don’t even bother coming here unless your child is at least 6 and can swim without a life jacket. Doesn’t matter if your children can stand in the pool, feet touching the bottom, with their head out of water or not. Doesn’t matter if your child proves they can easily swim to the side of the pool from where the slides let out or not.
Age and swimming ability are mutually exclusive, you morons. Just because a child is 5 doesn’t mean they can’t swim well, and just because they’re 6 doesn’t mean they can. I would make a comment about a child over the age of 6 drowning because of this idiotic rule, but it’s near impossible to take a step without running into one of their 16 school yard bully lifeguards anxiously awaiting the opportunity to cram their dumb rules down your throat. We get it, you got beat up all throughout high school and aren’t old enough to apply for the local police force, so this is the closest you can get to a position of authority, and until then, you’re going to impose yourself upon every person that crosses your path as a result.
The fact that I’m required to take the coast guard approved life jacket OFF of my child for her to be allowed to go down the slide is as moronic and it is ignorant. «Sir, we need to make your child unsafe before she can go down the slide, take that life saving device off first.» Basically, your staff and management are implying that they know more about water safety than the UNITED STATES COAST GUARD! I put my children in life jackets when they’re at the pool because it is an added layer of security and peace of mind that my children (one of which can swim without one, but not for 6 hours straight) will be safe while playing in the pool. By making a rule that says «In order for your child to play in water that’s 10 feet deep, they’re required to take off their life jacket,» you’re placing yourself at a greater risk for a child to incur injury or death as a result.
I have no problem following rules, especially when the rules actually carry some merit. Not allowing arm floaties, but allowing coast guard approved PFD’s, is a perfect example of a rule that might seem nit picky on the surface, but actually makes sense when you delve into it. It’s a rule is made with the ultimate safety of the children in mind, because you want to avoid unnecessary liability by not allowing children to use a cheap and potentially ineffective life saving device. In this case, your rules are too stupid to carry any merit whatsoever. The best analogy to the life jacket rule that I can think of would be that in order for me to be allowed to drive through a school zone, I am required to unbuckle my kids from their car seats, and have them lie down on the hood of the car until I’ve exited the school zone, at which time I can buckle them back up into their car seat and continue driving down the road. Only an imbecile would draft a set of rules build around forcing a child to REMOVE THEIR COAST GUARD APPROVED LIFE JACKET in order to play in their swimming pool. If there’s anybody with more than two brain cells to rub together at any level of management in your organization, you’ll recognize this and correct it.
I hope I’m never obligated to come to a birthday party here again so I can just make it a mission to tell everybody about the group of brainless idiots that run this place and never return as long as I live.