Originally Posted by 22B
What about a privately run pool?

Anyway, how is the gate person supposed to know that some person in the party has some special role that would warrant free entry? You would need some method to verify that a person is some kind of professional aide, and that they are acting in that capacity at that time?

Originally Posted by PanzerAzelSaturn
we could have managed without the TSS

How much were they costing the state?

My son's therapists have IDs supplied by the agency and when necessary (such as to accompany him to one of the city's day camps) they fax over the paperwork showing they have been TB tested, fingerprinted and background checked.

Of note, when a therapist accompanies my son to a city-run daycamp, I don't pay an entrance fee for the therapist and when we have gone to the pool (which is done not because it's entertaining but to work on specific skills like tolerating the feel of wet cold clothes while being around a certain amount of noise) we have not had to pay for the aide's entrance fee. In our area this is a recognized ADA accommodation.