Goldfish Swim School - Cary

Kyle Kettler _{on Google}

Feb 25th, 2024

Clean facilities, friendly staff, and the pool water is always just right.

Chantel _{on Google}

Apr 7th, 2024

The instructors are teens. Basically, all of them. I'm not exaggerating. They post the staff online. (Btw why are we telling any bad person on the internet where & when to find _____ name with ____ face?) Not a criticism of the teens trying to make money at all, just the establishment. You can pay teens less, that's why you-the establishment-have done so, but they are children themselves. How are they supposed to throughly understand how to teach 4-8 year olds how to focus and apply the "material?" Your little swimmer is going to spend both years and too much of your money trying to learn to swim here. The 1:4 class ratio sounds fine until you consider the inexperienced staff member has 30 minutes to get kids who have all begun the class at different stages and time periods to take a turn being held/guided. If they all begin at different times how could there possibly be a sound "curriculum" or process? Your swimmer would have to basically age into an older class to try to learn more than kicking and holding their breath while being held. The under 1s class got more wet than my 4 year old did. They didn't even use the whole lane. Less than half of it per class because they have bars in the water. Imagine your kid kicks 3 times away from the wall (in the instructor's arms), then 3 kicks back. Turn over. Now 3 more kids. If that wasn't nonsensical enough, they even got out and walked to the other side of the pool to swim for a moment then go back to thir own lane for some unexplained reason. This poor 17 year old is trying to hold 3-4 arms of wriggling kids, pressing them into the wall so no one gets hurt or drowns. That took longer in and of itself than teaching any one particular action. Incredibly inefficient and ineffective to take classes here. Disappointing.