Missing college student in the Dominican Republic from Ashburn

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know if the Indian girl knew how to swim

Why are you having to point out her ethnicity? Is there any other girl in the story?

Because a lot of foreign born Asians don't know how to swim. Swimming is not part of Asian schooling curriculum like it is in VA public schools.
My Asian roommate in grad school could not swim, ride a bike or drive. Those are considered essential life skills here, but not in Asia. Some parents might teach their kids but more likely, the kid masters them on their own.

Swimming is not part of VA public school curriculum. That is entirely on the family to teach.

- signed a VA public school grad with two VA public school teenagers.

Swimming has NOTHING to do with this BUT you are wrong. Our NOVA schools systems have swimming in elementary school and high school.

They certainly do but. I teach in the school system. You’re a troll.

I'm not a troll. Where do you teach? My kids took swimming in APS and FCPS. I sub in APS.

LCPS. You’re telling me there’s a mandatory swimming class taught during the school day? That’s bs.

Yes, in FCPS and APS.

blatantly false. absolutely untrue (may be an exception but certainly not all or mandatory)

sad to be trying so hard to insert off topic and false irrelevant diversions in this thread as if the actual subject matter isn't sad enough on its own

With regard to APS specifically there is mandatory swimming for 3rd graders and ninth graders. It is a unit in their PE curriculum. In elementary school they are bussed to the Washington liberty pool. Agree this has nothing to do with the topic at hand, nor would it have saved her, but you seem completely unhinged claiming you’re a teacher and making false statements about school district you don’t even work in.

Take your VA school comments to the VA school forum. This particular thread is not about that.

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Anonymous wrote:I would think a trained lifeguard would be that much more likely to raise an alarm if they saw someone disappear under a wave. Even drunk the training would kick in.

Unless he had something to hide.

If he killed her I hope he does not get away with it.

Do we know that Sudiksha or any of her friends weren't lifeguards?

There were 5 women total? Surely one must have been a lifeguard? Has this been reported?

This is so weird

Where do you get the idea that one in five women are lifeguards?

Even if one was a lifeguard, they weren't present at the time, so it wouldn't matter.

But lifeguards would be expected to warn their friends that red flag swimming at night after a night of drinking should be avoided.

There were 6 women total. Did any of them warn their friends that red flag swimming at night after a night of drinking should be avoided?

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know if the Indian girl knew how to swim

Why are you having to point out her ethnicity? Is there any other girl in the story?

Because a lot of foreign born Asians don't know how to swim. Swimming is not part of Asian schooling curriculum like it is in VA public schools.
My Asian roommate in grad school could not swim, ride a bike or drive. Those are considered essential life skills here, but not in Asia. Some parents might teach their kids but more likely, the kid masters them on their own.

Swimming is not part of VA public school curriculum. That is entirely on the family to teach.

- signed a VA public school grad with two VA public school teenagers.

Swimming has NOTHING to do with this BUT you are wrong. Our NOVA schools systems have swimming in elementary school and high school.

They certainly do but. I teach in the school system. You’re a troll.

I'm not a troll. Where do you teach? My kids took swimming in APS and FCPS. I sub in APS.

LCPS. You’re telling me there’s a mandatory swimming class taught during the school day? That’s bs.

Yes, in FCPS and APS.

blatantly false. absolutely untrue (may be an exception but certainly not all or mandatory)

sad to be trying so hard to insert off topic and false irrelevant diversions in this thread as if the actual subject matter isn't sad enough on its own

With regard to APS specifically there is mandatory swimming for 3rd graders and ninth graders. It is a unit in their PE curriculum. In elementary school they are bussed to the Washington liberty pool. Agree this has nothing to do with the topic at hand, nor would it have saved her, but you seem completely unhinged claiming you’re a teacher and making false statements about school district you don’t even work in.

STOP
APS matters to NO ONE and NOTHING in this thead

Why are you using your phone in the classroom?

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know if the Indian girl knew how to swim

Why are you having to point out her ethnicity? Is there any other girl in the story?

Because a lot of foreign born Asians don't know how to swim. Swimming is not part of Asian schooling curriculum like it is in VA public schools.
My Asian roommate in grad school could not swim, ride a bike or drive. Those are considered essential life skills here, but not in Asia. Some parents might teach their kids but more likely, the kid masters them on their own.

Swimming is not part of VA public school curriculum. That is entirely on the family to teach.

- signed a VA public school grad with two VA public school teenagers.

Swimming has NOTHING to do with this BUT you are wrong. Our NOVA schools systems have swimming in elementary school and high school.

They certainly do but. I teach in the school system. You’re a troll.

I'm not a troll. Where do you teach? My kids took swimming in APS and FCPS. I sub in APS.

LCPS. You’re telling me there’s a mandatory swimming class taught during the school day? That’s bs.

Yes, in FCPS and APS.

blatantly false. absolutely untrue (may be an exception but certainly not all or mandatory)

sad to be trying so hard to insert off topic and false irrelevant diversions in this thread as if the actual subject matter isn't sad enough on its own

With regard to APS specifically there is mandatory swimming for 3rd graders and ninth graders. It is a unit in their PE curriculum. In elementary school they are bussed to the Washington liberty pool. Agree this has nothing to do with the topic at hand, nor would it have saved her, but you seem completely unhinged claiming you’re a teacher and making false statements about school district you don’t even work in.

Take your VA school comments to the VA school forum. This particular thread is not about that.

She’s from Virginia dumb dumb.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know if the Indian girl knew how to swim

Why are you having to point out her ethnicity? Is there any other girl in the story?

Because a lot of foreign born Asians don't know how to swim. Swimming is not part of Asian schooling curriculum like it is in VA public schools.
My Asian roommate in grad school could not swim, ride a bike or drive. Those are considered essential life skills here, but not in Asia. Some parents might teach their kids but more likely, the kid masters them on their own.

Swimming is not part of VA public school curriculum. That is entirely on the family to teach.

- signed a VA public school grad with two VA public school teenagers.

Swimming has NOTHING to do with this BUT you are wrong. Our NOVA schools systems have swimming in elementary school and high school.

They certainly do but. I teach in the school system. You’re a troll.

I'm not a troll. Where do you teach? My kids took swimming in APS and FCPS. I sub in APS.

LCPS. You’re telling me there’s a mandatory swimming class taught during the school day? That’s bs.

Yes, in FCPS and APS.

blatantly false. absolutely untrue (may be an exception but certainly not all or mandatory)

sad to be trying so hard to insert off topic and false irrelevant diversions in this thread as if the actual subject matter isn't sad enough on its own

With regard to APS specifically there is mandatory swimming for 3rd graders and ninth graders. It is a unit in their PE curriculum. In elementary school they are bussed to the Washington liberty pool. Agree this has nothing to do with the topic at hand, nor would it have saved her, but you seem completely unhinged claiming you’re a teacher and making false statements about school district you don’t even work in.

Take your VA school comments to the VA school forum. This particular thread is not about that.

She’s from Virginia dumb dumb.

not the APS pp schooling us all about the swimming requirements for 3rd graders, apropos of NOTHING

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So he had a signal on his phone at the beach? If he saw a possible drowning and didn't report it, yeah. Or did he say that in that moment he didn't think she was drowning?

where was her phone?

Apparently according to the interviews by the classmates with whom she traveled to DR and several posts here, those classmates either took it back to the hotel or she asked them to take it because it could get lost or wet, sand. Her parents mentioned her stuff wallet keys were in her hotel room not sure if phone was also in room.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know if the Indian girl knew how to swim

Why are you having to point out her ethnicity? Is there any other girl in the story?

Because a lot of foreign born Asians don't know how to swim. Swimming is not part of Asian schooling curriculum like it is in VA public schools.
My Asian roommate in grad school could not swim, ride a bike or drive. Those are considered essential life skills here, but not in Asia. Some parents might teach their kids but more likely, the kid masters them on their own.

Swimming is not part of VA public school curriculum. That is entirely on the family to teach.

- signed a VA public school grad with two VA public school teenagers.

Swimming has NOTHING to do with this BUT you are wrong. Our NOVA schools systems have swimming in elementary school and high school.

They certainly do but. I teach in the school system. You’re a troll.

I'm not a troll. Where do you teach? My kids took swimming in APS and FCPS. I sub in APS.

LCPS. You’re telling me there’s a mandatory swimming class taught during the school day? That’s bs.

Yes, in FCPS and APS.

blatantly false. absolutely untrue (may be an exception but certainly not all or mandatory)

sad to be trying so hard to insert off topic and false irrelevant diversions in this thread as if the actual subject matter isn't sad enough on its own

With regard to APS specifically there is mandatory swimming for 3rd graders and ninth graders. It is a unit in their PE curriculum. In elementary school they are bussed to the Washington liberty pool. Agree this has nothing to do with the topic at hand, nor would it have saved her, but you seem completely unhinged claiming you’re a teacher and making false statements about school district you don’t even work in.

Take your VA school comments to the VA school forum. This particular thread is not about that.

She’s from Virginia dumb dumb.

Good for her wherever she is from. You can discuss swim curriculum and whether there is one or not and in which VA county in a schools forum.

[Anonymous]

If the young man is a person of interest, did they also say the classmates with whom Konanki vacationed with in DR are also persons of interest? No one here is saying suspect(s), person of interest.

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There were other drownings at same beach recently??What happened in those?

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Anonymous wrote:I would think a trained lifeguard would be that much more likely to raise an alarm if they saw someone disappear under a wave. Even drunk the training would kick in.

Unless he had something to hide.

If he killed her I hope he does not get away with it.

Do we know that Sudiksha or any of her friends weren't lifeguards?

There were 5 women total? Surely one must have been a lifeguard? Has this been reported?

This is so weird

Where do you get the idea that one in five women are lifeguards?

Even if one was a lifeguard, they weren't present at the time, so it wouldn't matter.

But lifeguards would be expected to warn their friends that red flag swimming at night after a night of drinking should be avoided.

lots of poor decision making to go around
There were 6 women total. Did any of them warn their friends that red flag swimming at night after a night of drinking should be avoided?

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know if the Indian girl knew how to swim

Why are you having to point out her ethnicity? Is there any other girl in the story?

Because a lot of foreign born Asians don't know how to swim. Swimming is not part of Asian schooling curriculum like it is in VA public schools.
My Asian roommate in grad school could not swim, ride a bike or drive. Those are considered essential life skills here, but not in Asia. Some parents might teach their kids but more likely, the kid masters them on their own.

Swimming is not part of VA public school curriculum. That is entirely on the family to teach.

- signed a VA public school grad with two VA public school teenagers.

Swimming has NOTHING to do with this BUT you are wrong. Our NOVA schools systems have swimming in elementary school and high school.

They certainly do but. I teach in the school system. You’re a troll.

I'm not a troll. Where do you teach? My kids took swimming in APS and FCPS. I sub in APS.

LCPS. You’re telling me there’s a mandatory swimming class taught during the school day? That’s bs.

Yes, in FCPS and APS.

blatantly false. absolutely untrue (may be an exception but certainly not all or mandatory)

sad to be trying so hard to insert off topic and false irrelevant diversions in this thread as if the actual subject matter isn't sad enough on its own

With regard to APS specifically there is mandatory swimming for 3rd graders and ninth graders. It is a unit in their PE curriculum. In elementary school they are bussed to the Washington liberty pool. Agree this has nothing to do with the topic at hand, nor would it have saved her, but you seem completely unhinged claiming you’re a teacher and making false statements about school district you don’t even work in.

Take your VA school comments to the VA school forum. This particular thread is not about that.

She’s from Virginia dumb dumb.

you are still here PP? I thought you died.

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Anonymous wrote:There were other drownings at same beach recently??What happened in those?

WTF do you think happened? Strong currents and people can’t get out of them. Jesus this is not rocket science.

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Anonymous wrote:There were other drownings at same beach recently??What happened in those?

It's known to be treacherous surf in that area. Thus, the red flag warnings. There's witness & video of the rough surf the last day Sudiksha was seen.

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Anonymous wrote:There were other drownings at same beach recently??What happened in those?

Four tourists tried swimming in red flag conditions and drowned. Don’t know if there were any mitigating conditions, like alcohol. I believe all were men.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know if the Indian girl knew how to swim

Why are you having to point out her ethnicity? Is there any other girl in the story?

Because a lot of foreign born Asians don't know how to swim. Swimming is not part of Asian schooling curriculum like it is in VA public schools.
My Asian roommate in grad school could not swim, ride a bike or drive. Those are considered essential life skills here, but not in Asia. Some parents might teach their kids but more likely, the kid masters them on their own.

Swimming is not part of VA public school curriculum. That is entirely on the family to teach.

- signed a VA public school grad with two VA public school teenagers.

Swimming has NOTHING to do with this BUT you are wrong. Our NOVA schools systems have swimming in elementary school and high school.

They certainly do but. I teach in the school system. You’re a troll.

I'm not a troll. Where do you teach? My kids took swimming in APS and FCPS. I sub in APS.

LCPS. You’re telling me there’s a mandatory swimming class taught during the school day? That’s bs.

Yes, in FCPS and APS.

The basic swim skills taught in a mandatory public school claass would not be sufficient to save a drunk person in rough waters in the dark.

My public HS/Junior HS on Same campus had a full size Olympic pool. Swimming was mandatory part of Gym. We did it weekly and was graded. Whole thing, they provided swim suits, we had showers, they had towels for us. We were literally swimming laps, learning to stay up in water, coaches blowing whistles, learned all type of swimming strokes and was graded, we even raced in the laps and did diving. I took maybe 160 swim classes at School. My school had an amazing swim team. We won tons of championships. My town also had a beautiful resident only public pool. We go all summer. They would do swim classes there for little kids and had CPR classes. I knew CPR. This was on Long Island and we even had a town beach we could go to. So I swam in Ocean a lot. I say between pool and beach in summer and swim class I go swimming around 120-150 days a year!!! So did nearly all of my town. And I was poor. This was provided by schools and town. We even had a JCC and YMCA daycare and camp on town both with pools that did swimming lessons.

None of that would have helped me but what would have helped is I would not go into choppy water drunk at night as that was drilled into me. Seem plenty of people almost drown growing up at Jones Beach who were from City had a few beers and get into choppy waters and got rescued by lifeguards. So Without a lifeguard at night it is very dangerous. But who knows even with all that knowledge I almost drowned in Bermuda at night after we thought when I was young going for a midnight swim after being at bar since 5 pm was a good idea. Luckily I made it back and said never again .