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[quote=Anonymous]Not DC but--there is a man-made swimming pond where I live, it's a state park. Closed this year, also last year as it's getting harder to find lifeguards for summer jobs. They had 2 kids drown in recent years. In one case the child was with a large group chaperoned by a community agency and a law enforcement group for an outing. After the second drowning they changed the rules: if a child is 8 or younger, parents have to be in the pond with them. From 9 to 12? maybe even older-- they have to be seated on the sand (sand beach extends maybe 15 feet) and NOT reading, NOT looking at their phone. The announcement is made every hour.

Off topic--the child with the group was born in Liberia. A few years earlier there was a 16 year old boy from an African country who drowned in a h.s. pool [i]during swimming class[/i]. That spurred a lot of discussion about kids, particularly kids of color and especially immigrant kids, who have not had the level of exposure to water white kids have often had-- including low income white kids, since there is a pretty robust program to get them free swim passes for city pools in the summer.  [/quote]

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