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My Mom took us to the YWCA to learn how to swim in the early sixties. Can you still do that now?
I think all kids should learn how to swim, but I think that it is the parent's responsibility.......not the taxpayers.
Parents..........if you don't have the money...........cancel your satellite/cable TV and your computer service for a few months and pay for the swimming lessons yourselves.
I was swimming like a fish before my 5th birthday. Spent more time underwater than on top to my mom's worry. I'd surface for air behind her and then go back down. She finally learned to live with it.
Here some more news about four men that drowned because they couldn't swim.
Four men feared drowned in Idaho reservoir after joke gone awry.
BOISE -- Anxious family members watched today from a nearby hill as dive teams searched an Idaho reservoir for four missing men who may have gone overboard during a prank gone awry.
The men were feared drowned during a boating trip, leaving five young children adrift on the boat in the 87-square-mile American Falls reservoir Sunday evening, authorities said.
Many people die from deaths that could have been prevented by basic, and I do mean very basic swimming skills.
I personally believe that every student in school should have a swimming class, early on in their education. One hour a day at the city pool in august until everyone knows how.
I think this is going a little overboard. There are plenty of people who go through life just fine without knowing how to swim. There is no need for a mandate for every school to teach swimming. I agree that kids need exercise but it would be too much of an expense to roll everyone out of school to the city pool, insurance, etc.
I can swim enough to keep myself safe but I couldn't save anyone. I panic if I can't touch bottom. But I have put my 6 year old in enough swim classes, he is learning the backstroke, water saftety, floating, etc. I think its the smartest thing anyone can (learning to swim).
Memphis, conservatives don't want to pay for PE class much less a pool to for kids to swim in.
I grew up in two very conversative areas of PA and I had swimming lessons during school in both elementary and high school. Both areas had high schools with their own swimming pool. Of course I didn't really need them because my parents had paid for my swimming lessons outside my schooling from the time I was 5 - but it was good for some of the weaker swimmers in my school.
I'm not a very good swimmer. I can doggie paddle for a little while but if I had to tread water to stay alive I'd probably die. My mom used to love swimming all the time, but she never taught us or put us in lessons. I've never gone to any school that had a pool. I've been thinking about taking lessons, but I don't have high hopes.
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