Arlington Heights Park District — Attraction in Wheeling Township

I'm a mom of 4 andI have had nothing but horrible experience with getting and keeping kid dance classes with ahpd. I'm in district and even if I sign up 1st day to get in ...set my schedule around what was secured (I have 4 kids to manage ) they constantly cancel or move classes around, causing a domino effect on the balance of the schedules. As a former girl scout leader, my daughter had to miss 1 class a month on classes I paid for because this park district can't set a schedule and I planned the monthly GS meeting around her original weekly schedule. Today, they cancelled a course due to low participate enrollment 2 days before the first class date and now tell me to use Hoffman estates Park district offerings instead. Great, now I have to figure out how to get my child 20 miles to hepd on a weeknight during rush hour traffic in the opposite direction of my work. I know least 6 parents in same predicament. This has been going on for at least 5 years. The cultural arts supervisor is well aware of the stress it causes but can't seem to fix the poor enrollment problem and/or offerings. I thought it was baton, a slightly different than normal sport but lyrical ballet...same issue. Sign up based on offered printed schedule and a week later, they push the class...

The registration process for children's camps discriminates against working families, it opens during working hours on a weekday and everything fills up immediately. You can't count on the park district at all as a family with two working parents. It could be solved with a simple lottery with some reasonable registration window, but instead they survey the families who already benefit from the process and leave it intact. The parks are nice, too bad the signup process...

I would like to thank John Kramer who’s in charge of all of our parks in our village for his swift and friendly and cooperative response to some issues at my park, Frontier. One phone call and all my issues were resolved quickly. All repairs done in a matter of days with such care. Thanks John so much . I’m so appreciative as a 59 year resident !!!...