Aqua-Tots Swim Schools – Midvale, Midvale | Fees, Rankings, Address, Admission, Vacancies, Reviews & More

After almost 3 years of attending this swim school I finally pulled my last son out during the middle of class yesterday. I was done.

The baby and parent classes were always amazing. My children developed a love for water and always felt safe with me or their dad. When my eldest son first progressed into the next level he went into the water with his most favorite teacher Keri I think is how you spell her name. She was with him for over 7 or 8 months and he flourished with her and he learned almost all of his skills with her. He was about to move up to the next level until she moved. To this day she was the only one who ever updated his charts and stayed consistent with him.

Since then he his teachers would change almost every week, no one would ever update his skills and he had been in the same class for almost two years and no one ever moved him up they held him back.

The classes were always being cut short, teachers always picking up the students late.

Callie the manager is really a sweetheart, she did try to give my older son private lessons for a few months to see if she could get him to a better place but by then so many of the other teachers had already traumatized him in the water and had undone all of the hard work me, his dad and Keri had done; he was extremely confident in the water at first so it was very sad to see that dwindle away over the year being at this school. so unfortunately i think it was just too late.

We thought about keeping my youngest son in the swim school despite our frustrations with our oldest son but as our son was crying trying to adjust to being in the group class. I saw how frustrated the teacher was. Then another parent went to the girl working the front parent saying how she felt bad for my son which she proceeded to tell her, “oh yeah thats just Phineas you know” and proceeded to laugh and mock him. The mockery of my son was enough for me. We have wasted enough time and money on this school. My kids have learned absolutely nothing. All they have gained is an absolute fear of the water.

This facility is not up to code. They don’t have the push bar door lock to protect kids from the heavy traffic right in front of their door and when my son ran outside the building and almost got hit by a car, the manager cancelled my kid’s lessons because it was my fault according to her. Staff is nice but the lessons are overpriced. I paid around $550/ month and the progress was very slow. I can honestly say that my son did not learn anything besides dunking his head underwater. I was so happy that the manager cancelled our lesson and she thankfully gave me a refund. I can’t help but feel sad for her because she lacks the ability to deal with the public and just by looking at her eyes and her face, you would know that she is constantly terrified of handling her position or maybe it’s just the way she looks. I am now at the Big Blue and we are loving it.

Me and my wife love Aqua-Tots Midvale so much, our son loves his coach and the lessons are incredible. He has only been enrolled for a few weeks but has already made so much progress. We always feel so welcomed when we walk in the door and the school is always so clean. We highly recommend Aqua-Tots to anyone looking to get their kids into swim classes!!