January 2015 by DeDe Morton
My daughter (8) took swim lessons at Seahorse Swim School, and her experience was disappointing. We liked Tiffany's teaching style, but unfortunately she does not teach all the classes herself. The school has a high turnover rate for instructors, so finding the right instructor (who will stay around for awhile) is difficult. My daughter struggled in the class because the instructions that she was given were confusing, and there was no continuity in the teaching. The instructor was not very good at encouraging or motivating her students. My daughter was unhappy and not excited about going to class. We enrolled her in two back-to-back sessions, and she made very little progress during those weeks. (The classes are 30 minutes long, but it seemed like the instructor always started late and ended early.) It was, quite frankly, a complete waste of our money.Recently, we enrolled our daughter in a different swim school. The instructors are phenomenal, and even after the first lesson, we saw a results. At Seahorse, our daughter struggled to perform basic strokes; now, after only a week of instruction at the new school, she is the strongest swimmer in the class and is ready to move on to the next level. I regret wasting our time and money at Seahorse, but luckily, our daughter seems to have recovered from the experience.
