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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A school could mandate a student pass a swim safety test that is administered outside of school or school hours. This could be a graduation requirement or an annual requirement that kids upload to their portals like other health and safety documents. There is zero need to have enforced swimming at school if the sole aim is to make sure all kids are able to swim enough to avoid drowning. [/quote]

And who will pay for the swimming classes? Why not do the same with PE or any other skill for that matter? [/quote]

There’s a medical consensus that’s it’s important for kids to be active and exercise each day (ideally outside). There is no rest that exercise needs to be swimming (which is indoors and at a different location and creates its own set of stresses for kids this age).

As for paying for it, arranging for students to be able to take a one-time swim test with an existing swimming facility (or supervising a one-time swim test yourself with your own existing PE/swim faculty) would be much cheaper than renting a pool from another facility and busing kids to and from there daily (which is what this particular school is currently doing). [/quote]

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