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Should swimming lessons be mandatory in school? (1 Viewer)
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NutterButter
Footballguy
Definite hell no
Quint
Footballguy
short answer: yes.
but the logistics are a nightmare.
not sure how many elementary schools have pools on campus, so you'll need to find a public pool that will accommodate 30+ kids. and you don't learn how to swim in just a single 30 minute session, so the lessons will have to take place over a number of days/weeks and you'll have to factor in transportation to and from the facility. then there's the liability angle: it's not like taking little Johnny or Sally out to the playground and teaching them how to swing a bat or shoot a jumper, we're talking about water and kids who don't know how not to drown. further, you'll need six or seven [certified] instructors (for a class of 30+) to handle that many kids at one time. and as strapped for $$$ as many districts are, getting funding allocated for such a program will be a challenge too.
but the logistics are a nightmare.
not sure how many elementary schools have pools on campus, so you'll need to find a public pool that will accommodate 30+ kids. and you don't learn how to swim in just a single 30 minute session, so the lessons will have to take place over a number of days/weeks and you'll have to factor in transportation to and from the facility. then there's the liability angle: it's not like taking little Johnny or Sally out to the playground and teaching them how to swing a bat or shoot a jumper, we're talking about water and kids who don't know how not to drown. further, you'll need six or seven [certified] instructors (for a class of 30+) to handle that many kids at one time. and as strapped for $$$ as many districts are, getting funding allocated for such a program will be a challenge too.
whiskey7
Footballguy
I agree everyone should know how to swim. May save a life (particularly, their own) some day. Plus it's fun and great exercise. Living in MN where there is water everywhere, we got our kids in lessons as early as possible.
Mandatory is a little aggressive and (like some of the others said) not all schools have pools. But I think it's important and would like to see it more encouraged (if nothing else).
Definitely agree about finance, too.
Mandatory is a little aggressive and (like some of the others said) not all schools have pools. But I think it's important and would like to see it more encouraged (if nothing else).
Definitely agree about finance, too.
OrtonToOlsen
Footballguy
Really?
It's something that could mean life or death to someone. Not the same as skiing or jai alai.
For example, this father was fishing with his son on the Mississippi river when the son fell in the water. The dad went in ti get him and drowned....he was 20something and didn't know how to swim.
http://people.com/human-interest/dad-drowns-saving-son-mississippi-river-final-photo/
BeTheMatch
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Courtjester
The Town Drunk
No, it shouldn't be mandatory
I can tell you that a year of gym was mandatory in my daughter's high school and one of the blocks is swimming--so you learn to swim or get a bad grade.
I can tell you that a year of gym was mandatory in my daughter's high school and one of the blocks is swimming--so you learn to swim or get a bad grade.
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Are you suggesting we make them walk to the neighborhood pool?
I like your thinking!
Zegras11
Footballguy
when did every neighborhood get a pool?Are you suggesting we make them walk to the neighborhood pool?
I like your thinking!
JoeSteeler
Footballguy
should have been a pool
B Maverick
Footballguy
It was mandatory at my high school in San Diego. 9th grade you had to take PE and that included swim class. If you passed the test and proved you could swim then you got to do other things like water polo or races. If not you learned to swim. I imagine parents could opt their kids out if they had reasons too.
With that, no it should not be mandatory in school. And by HS it is probably too late. Parents responsibility imo. And my schools did not have a pool until HS either.
With that, no it should not be mandatory in school. And by HS it is probably too late. Parents responsibility imo. And my schools did not have a pool until HS either.
belljr
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Jayrod
Footballguy
My brother-in-law teaches a class on personal finance at our HS that is required for graduation. It's a great course that covers the basics of credit cards, loans, credit scores, balancing a checkbook and income taxes.
And no, swimming lessons should not be mandatory.
Zegras11
Footballguy
Thunderlips
Footballguy
I don't think it should be a Federally mandated "YOU MUST SWIM" law with schools......but schools and school districts who have the means (either by a pool at the school or the finances to work out a deal with an entity that has a pool) would do their students a service by making it part of their physical ed curriculum. It would serve their children better than dodge ball. My childrens school district does it in third grade.
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It should be common sense that you don't play around bodies of water if you don't know how to swim. There are plenty of people who will never be in a situation like that and don't need to learn to swim.
-OZ-
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RedmondLonghorn
Footballguy
In a perfect world every school would have a pool and it would be a mandatory part of the PE curriculum.
This isn't a perfect world.
The end.
This isn't a perfect world.
The end.
SkyRattlers
Anti-aliai
Do the community pools in your area sit empty and unused? I know mine aren't. How on earth do you expect to accommodate all the hours a school would need to book?
-OZ-
Footballguy
The pools in my area are open enough to accommodate a grade from one of our schools at a time. Of course, it takes more than an hour once with one instructor to teach kids a swim and the mass classes usually don't work to actually teach someone to swim. It would need to be more about water safety than swimming well. Even then this isn't a federal issue, should be up to the school.
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