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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was recently in CA- every school there had an outdoor pool- most had 2 or even 3. In NoVa, there was an agreement that the pools would be in the Rec centers. Anyone can go there to swim. Anyone can join NCAP.

I lived in NE - we didn’t have public pools, I learned to swim in a lake. We could join a swim team, like here in Fairfax, we just had to pay $ to join the team and get to practice.
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I would not crow about NoVA.

DC has 23 outdoor pools and 12 Aquatic Centers, serving 712,000 people. Fairfax County has 0 outdoor pools and 10 aquatic centers, serving 1.1 million people.

That is the legacy of racism.  Clearly FFX only built the pools necessary for lap sports, with no recreational pools included.  They see no need because the historically white communities built their private pools.  Same is true of Arlington.  They have 3 high school pools built in the 70s, and only recently did they build the first aquatics center.  No recreational pools, but a bunch of private pools that I'm pretty sure were mostly built in the mid-50s.

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Thank you for putting this so succinctly. I can't tell if some of the posters genuinely don't understand/know the history or if they refuse to believe it.

It's totally ok now to know or understand history. I sure didn't understand this part of US history until I was well into adulthood. I certainly was never taught about all the various racially discriminatory practices at play in the US, or their after-effects, in school. The article someone just posted is from 2004. I didn't live here in 2004. I learned this year that Luther Jackson Middle School used to be the black high school when I Googled it after my kid's sports practice. I didn't know when I was bussed across town in grade school in the 70's and 80's it was because my hometown school district was under a consent decree from a civil rights lawsuit for failure to integrate. Just because no one talked to you about this when you were growing up doesn't mean it's not real.[/quote]

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