www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/.../19679.asp
The most substantial change, of course, is that suits would no longer be allowed to extend past the knee.
My personal opinion is this is sort of an arbitrary change. What really should be changed--if anything--is what types of materials are allowed and maybe testing protocol to approve a suit. I don't really think requiring suits to end at the knees would affect much.
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Galen - why are you here on the US Masters Swimming board?
Maybe it would be more interesting to you to find a place that is discussing what is happening with the Washington DC school system. That is interesting and directly related to K-12 education.
As for dropping all sports entirely - I doubt there is any evidence that dropping athletics produces higher achievement in math and science. Children do not generally want to study all day and night like it seems you suggest they should. But you would know that if you had children. You seem to not believe that fitness is at all part of a complete growing up process. So I guess in your ideal world kids would have soft weak bodies, sharp but tired minds, and strong fingers because they are always typing on a keyboard.
Galen - why are you here on the US Masters Swimming board?
Maybe it would be more interesting to you to find a place that is discussing what is happening with the Washington DC school system. That is interesting and directly related to K-12 education.
As for dropping all sports entirely - I doubt there is any evidence that dropping athletics produces higher achievement in math and science. Children do not generally want to study all day and night like it seems you suggest they should. But you would know that if you had children. You seem to not believe that fitness is at all part of a complete growing up process. So I guess in your ideal world kids would have soft weak bodies, sharp but tired minds, and strong fingers because they are always typing on a keyboard.
