ABOUT THE POOLS FAQ’s - Family Change Room Guidelines We sometimes get comments about patrons using change rooms of the opposite sex. Generally this involves younger children and sometimes special needs patrons. The fact that Fritz Sick, Nicholas Sheran and Stan Siwik pools were built many years ago at time when accessibility was not as big a consideration is the major factor creating this issue. Some family change rooms have been added to both Nicholas Sheran, Stan Siwik and most recently Henderson Pool that have helped to alleviate the problem. The general guideline that we use is that we ask patrons with children in the age range of 6 years & up to use the proper public change room or the Family change rooms (if the parent is incomfortable with them changing alone). If someone does use opposite sex change rooms with a child that is “older” we will suggest alternatives as our goal is not to be confrontational but rather to find a solution that works for everyone. The best is to try to work with each other to make it as comfortable as possible for everyone.
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Some suggestions include but are not limited to: 1) Only use the Family Change rooms if you need to - this will keep them open for those that do need to use them a) If you use the Family change room please take your belongings with you so someone else can use the room 2) Use change stalls with the curtains if available in the public change rooms 3) Ask the staff for other alternatives for pools like Fritz Sick that don’t have Family Change rooms 4) Be tolerant of other peoples feelings 5) Be tolerant of the staff - likely they are asking because another patron has raised their concern and they are caught in the middle of a difficult situation.
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