The Afterschool Alliance (www.afterschoolnow.org), supported by the Ad Council and the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, are running a public service ad campaign that appears to ridicule Masters swimmers. According to Alliance’s website, “These PSAs use humor to communicate the importance of taking action to support afterschool programs. The campaign includes TV and radio spots, newspaper ads, billboards, web banners and more.”
One print ad has a facial portrait of a smiling, senior gentleman in a pool, obviously a happy swimmer, with swimming goggles on. Superimposed over the portrait are the following words: “There’s nothing more REFRESHING than neglecting our nation’s YOUTH.” At the bottom, the ad continues to say: “When I don’t support afterschool programs, I feel so relaxed and carefree. It’s like I’m doing nothing at all! Unless you call depriving 15 million kids something…”
You can download a copy of the ad from the following website:
www.afterschoolnow.org/print_ads.cfm
Parents
Former Member
It would be wonderful if communities took more interested in swimming. But swimming doesn't solved all problems with troubled children or adults. My childhood was not that happy in some ways and I'm not going into detail why?. I found out by age 15, I needed something more about the meaning of life and I use to skipped practice and went to make calls to a hot line and pretend to go into practice. Anyway, I grew up a little more and stop doing that. I wasn't happy in that sometimes with the swimming since there were of course more talented people. However, because no other girl swimmer workout year round at my high school I was the best female swimmer there. Now, I do the swimming mainly for exercise and realized that I lost so much over the years that I will probably not be able to even come within 5 seconds of my childhood times in 100 yard swims. I more like 14 to 25 seconds off depending upon the stroke.
It would be wonderful if communities took more interested in swimming. But swimming doesn't solved all problems with troubled children or adults. My childhood was not that happy in some ways and I'm not going into detail why?. I found out by age 15, I needed something more about the meaning of life and I use to skipped practice and went to make calls to a hot line and pretend to go into practice. Anyway, I grew up a little more and stop doing that. I wasn't happy in that sometimes with the swimming since there were of course more talented people. However, because no other girl swimmer workout year round at my high school I was the best female swimmer there. Now, I do the swimming mainly for exercise and realized that I lost so much over the years that I will probably not be able to even come within 5 seconds of my childhood times in 100 yard swims. I more like 14 to 25 seconds off depending upon the stroke.
