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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]Actually there are no cut sports in swimming, diving, and track as well as ultimate. Plus clubs that teachers get money to sponsor. It’s definitely valuable and if you say it’s not it’s because you have no MS kids.[/quote]

Swimming. DIVING??? Again Unless a kid has had lots of private lessons, they will be floundering in the water.

Sure track. Running kids in a circle. Great. [/quote]

At Gunston diving was no cut and the rule was "you have to be willing to jump in the water." [/quote]

Right. But to be able to SWIM well enough to not be terrified to jump in the water, parents have to have already paid for lessons. Where would they have learned to swim well enough to feel safe on 12 ft tank??[/quote]
They teach you to swim if you join the swim team (also a no cut sport).  These aren’t elite sports here.  Why not trim down highschool activities and at least offer after school clubs for middle school (if you have to cut the team sports that’s fine, but cutting after school activities altogether is a bad idea).[/quote]

That must be a joy for a middle schooler, to be learning to swim like a toddler in front of all your classmates.

And I know that was never communicated, that the would teach you to swim.  Nothing I saw said anything like that. The elementary swimming lessons are basically anti-drowning learn to tread water, not real swim lessons. [/quote]
 
OMG. Take your kid to the pool when they’re little and sign them up for swim lessons. It isn’t that hard.

So just because some parents don’t teach their kids to swim when little, we must abandon swim teams for all? Give me a break.[/quote]

This x1000.

I'm sure the equity police will pop in here and say not everyone can do this.  Know what I don't care.  Sometimes life is not fair.  Sorry but it just isn't.  [/quote]

I saw someone posted an article on AEM about pools being segregated in the 50s. Yes, that was dead wrong. But guess what? They haven’t been segregated for a long time. Access to a pool is no longer expensive (I used to swim at Wakefield quite a bit). Get out there and do it, or stop complaining.[/quote]

Lots of "privileged" folks can't swim, too; or choose not to.  I am guessing that they usually don't choose to join swim or dive teams.  So I don't see why it matters that they would be "floundering in the water."  They're not being forced to join the team.  However, they are required to take the swim units in PE in certain grades.  Should that be stopped because they might be embarrassed "floudering" in front of their classmates who already know how to swim?[/quote]

Of course not. And I was responding to the poster complaining about the inequity of some students not having access to club sports. Everyone wants to complain that it’s a privilege issue, when it isn’t.[/quote]

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