The director of aquatics lied frequently after not communicating efficiently and clearly. She seemed happy to frustrate me and vindictive. I would never want anyone to come in contact with her. Behnoosh Shebastari is her name and I feel badly for anyone she is in contact with.

My son obtained his lifeguarding certification at the YMCA in Somerville. He had a fantastic time and we were quite pleased with the program. I, personally, learned how to swim in the same pool many years ago.

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Our children have had a great experience learning to swim at the Somerville Y! Millie is patient and gentle with the preschool/kindergarten aged students while driving improved stoke skills with the kids.

Coach Mary is an amazing instructor! She is such a positive force who provides encouragement and skill improvement. Our child's stroke skills have improved so much during her class. More importantly, she has helped our child enjoy swimming again.

Yes, I'd definitely recommend (and have!) to friends and family. I gave an 8 instead of 9 or 10 because we've had a wide range of instructors from GREAT to pretty terrible. We've had to be keyed into the instruction and have switched mid-session to find the right fit. The teachers we've moved from have not paid attention (like literally not watched the children swim) and/or have lacked giving any instruction. They've just told the kids to swim back and forth and that's it.

But, we've also had wonderful and engaged instructors and our kids have loved and progressed in these classes.

It’s been great

Classes are not convenient, nor are there enough to choose from.

Class size over 2 or 3 perhaps another adult instructor would be good to have to help out teachinng. My class had 5 of us so the instructor had to adjust her attention annd help a lot

During private swim instruction.. 2 lanes should be given to swimmers for instruction. Very noisy during school age meets.

Very good lifeguard certification course

The temperature of the water is nice and warm, and I like there were back-to-back classes Mon through Thursday. The instructors for all sessions Monday - Friday were great!

Good teachers and small class sizes make the program worth the money.

Waiting on response sent regarding Wednesday 4:30pm class. Would have been a 9 before this class, which rated a 1 or 2 and brought the score down.

The class was held at the Bridgewater facility. The teacher, Peter, was excellent. He kept the material light but maintained an attention to detail. He was patient with those of us who were struggling with the material. He clearly likes his job and it showed in how he presented the class.

I do not feel like the swim instructor for the preschool class is able to teach all of them in a class setting. Either there needs to be only about two kids with one instructor or more instructors in the class. I find that my child sits on the side of the pool being mainly supervised by the lifeguard for at least 75% of the class while the instructor does individual training with each child. For a class that is only 30 minutes, my child sitting on the side of the pool 75% of the time doesn't really feel like she's getting much out of it.

While we have generally had a great experience with the instructors, I've been very disappointed that a life guard isn't more present during the lessons. The instructor is busy with each child, and while the others are awaiting their turn, there should be someone keeping an eye on them. The lifeguards are often on the opposite side of the pool, talking to each other, and not looking at the kids in the pool that don't know how to swim.

The class was crowded with 8 kids for one instructor

one of the swim instructors is very mean and harsh... the guy in the wheelchair

Very structured program, very patient instructors and great facility!

the aquatic staff were super helpful!!!

Number of options and quality of the trainers are impressive. Only thing I don't like is how we had to walk through the gym to the pool, also inside the pool area feels suffocating

My daughter was very happy with her experience

My daughters name fell if swim program while the employee tried to move her up to stage 3. I now have a payment issue where Y is saying I need to pay but I already paid for it. The issue is taking time to resolve. Also I do not like that I do not know who the instructor is for swim program so that I can try to keep consistency for my kids. It should not be that hard to have this info available when all other swim schools are proving this info easily.

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Very good experience, coach is very good and the administration team is very helpful and friendly