Wamego Aquatic Center- Indoor — Local services in Wamego

My oldest is 8 and has autism so teaching him how to swim has been a challenge for my husband and I his little brother who is 6 recently got over his fewr of water so We decided to put them in swim lessons this year and we were excited for them to learn how to swim and they where excited too!. We signed them up for group A since it was there first time. On the first day of swim lessons I noticed one of the life guards helping with long blond hair was not being that nice to my kids and paying more attention to the younger kids, I brushed it off as just she was more focused on the younger kids because they needed her attention more then my two kids did. We unfortunately had to miss the second and third day but we took them the fourt day. In group A there where only 2 kids plus our two. They began the lessons and my oldest was doing what he was told but got a little close to the one life guard who likes to keep her hair down and she yelled at him "don't splash me I don't want to get my hair wet" the fact I was sitting down at the chairs and heard her yelling that clearly was uncalled for to yell at any child like that. Later on in the lessons after they used some floating devices to teach the kids how to kick their legs in the water our oldest son was still using it yes but he was bring it back to her. He got off it when he got closer to her and tried to nicely hand it to her but she yanked it out of his hand. She proceeded to ignore both my kids the rest of the time even walking away when they tried to talk to her or ask her a question. The male life guard in group A was amazing! He helped our kids when the one that had her hair down wouldn't and he stayed with our kids to make sure they where understand what they needed to do. The girl that had her hair up was nice to and she helped our kids also and talked to them but the one with her hair down honestly does not need to be teaching kids how to swim if she going to be so rude and cold towards a child who did nothing wrong to her. We decided because of her attitude and the way she treated our kids especially our oldest we will not be finishing the swimming lessons and just excepted the fact we spent $80 for nothing. I would not recommend anyone with a special needs child to sing their kids up for the swim lessons at the wamego pool because if there was one person who treated our autistic child that poorly I'm sure there are others that work there...

I went their yesterday as a tourist, with my oldest daughter and her 8 yr old son who is autistic plu my 23 yr old daughter was with us she is on the spectrum as well. She was going to jump off the diving board, so I went to go watch her and swam in this circle part area only to hear a 13 or so yr old boy talk about her. And I called him out then his group of friends joined in and they told the manager I harassing them and to get told by the manager that they said I was lying about what they said. This staff has no care about special needs kids. I certainly hope the schools their do not treat special needs...

I’ve heard wonderful things from friends about the water aerobics classes taught by Grace!… Otherwise, the rest of the staff at this pool deeply concerns me. I’ve observed that they’re extremely inattentive and lazy. I’ve noticed they spend more time dancing around and showing off for one another rather than doing their job. I’m not one to write negative reviews, but considering someone has died at this pool and staff continue to be inattentive is beyond awful. I hope this review is taken seriously by the city and pool staff, as I don’t want to see...