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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]

VA public school grad here too. Arlington to be specific.
I had to swim in 4th grade and again in 10th grade for PE.
AND forced to take showers (so cold). The PE teacher checked us all off exiting the shower stalls - it affected our grade.
Of course, it was hard to pull on tight jeans with wet skin.

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Swimming has unfortunately been remote ved from most public school and university curriculums because certain demographics have a history of being denied access to pools and thus did not know how to swim. So it was considered embarrassing or derogatory to include it. I had to pass a swim test to graduate from college (I went to a large public flagship). You had to swim one length of the pool without stopping and tread water for 5 minutes. You had to pass the test once before you graduated. If you couldn't pass, the school offered free swim lessons until you could pass (and it wasn't considered a big deal if you needed the lessons). I graduated in the late 90s. Now they no longer have the swim test because students complained it was racist.

On the flip side, my private elementary school actually added swimming to the PE curriculum 10 years ago once they built an indoor pool on campus (as well as how to ride a bike). These lessons start in 3rd grade. If you don't have a swim suit or googles (or a bike for the bike lessons), they will get those for you, no questions asked. I wish all schools were like this.[/quote]

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