My parents could not afford to send us all to swim lessons(5 of us), and we were in a rural town, 20 miles from a pool, so I learned to swim at age 39. One reason I got my kids into swimming lessons was because my husband was afraid of water, as is most of his family, so did not want my kids to be afraid.
Many parents simply do not have the means to send their kids to lessons, which this woman is addressing. I watched the piece on the news this morning. She fundraises 1500.00 a month to support the lessons and currently has 64 kids in the program. She is doing a great thing, but this type of thing is tough to support, AND you have to have pool availibilty, which is not happening here in Illinois any time soon.
Class sessions for each subject in middle school is around 38 minutes each. So where is the time to bundle these kids on a bus, bus them to a pool, have them change, swim, change, back on the bus and back. It would have to cut into 2-3 class times. In our state the schools have not gotten their state aid for last year, because of financial issues, swimming is the last thing they want to try and pay for.
My parents could not afford to send us all to swim lessons(5 of us), and we were in a rural town, 20 miles from a pool, so I learned to swim at age 39. One reason I got my kids into swimming lessons was because my husband was afraid of water, as is most of his family, so did not want my kids to be afraid.
Many parents simply do not have the means to send their kids to lessons, which this woman is addressing. I watched the piece on the news this morning. She fundraises 1500.00 a month to support the lessons and currently has 64 kids in the program. She is doing a great thing, but this type of thing is tough to support, AND you have to have pool availibilty, which is not happening here in Illinois any time soon.
Class sessions for each subject in middle school is around 38 minutes each. So where is the time to bundle these kids on a bus, bus them to a pool, have them change, swim, change, back on the bus and back. It would have to cut into 2-3 class times. In our state the schools have not gotten their state aid for last year, because of financial issues, swimming is the last thing they want to try and pay for.
