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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's such a waste of instructional time. They should cut it, and it would save a lot of money too.[/quote]

It’s not swimming lessons like freestyle and backstroke. It’s water safety- like floating, treading water, survival stroke, what to do if someone falls in and is hurt or can’t swim. A lot of families don’t have access to a pool or swim lessons and water safety is important. It’s like 2 days in 3rd grade and 5 days in 4th grade. They leave in a bus right after morning meeting and return before lunch. [/quote]

+1. I helped chaperone a few times when my kids were in elementary. Day one they get a sense from a test in the shallow end of who needs help and who is clearly a swim team kid.  From there they are divided up for the rest of the week.  The goal is purely water safety.  Poor kids, especially in south Arlington, have very little access to pools.  If we can spend a couple of half days giving them basic life-saving skills, it's not like it's going to impact admission to Harvard in 5th grade.

Please don't sit in your 22207 privilege and complain.  Your NVSL kid will be fine.  APS institutes programs across the school system. The experience probably looks very very different for the 3rd graders at Jamestown or Discovery than it does for the kids at Carlin Springs or Randolph.
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Right but those kids at CS and Randolph also have high needs in a lot of other areas. I question whether water safety should really be a priority for a school division like ours. It's not like we're a beachfront community. [/quote]

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