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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does anyone know if the Indian girl knew how to swim [/quote]

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

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.[/quote]

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. [/quote]

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

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

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

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

Yes, in FCPS and APS. [/quote]

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.[/quote]

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 .            [/quote]

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