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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think my question would be why doesn't all the high schools have swimming pools? I think all the public HS in DC has it[/quote]

There are several, but it's not all public HS have them. Feels like it's more lower income areas other than JR (I think the pool is actually part of the connected rec center that's still named Wilson).[/quote]

I grew up in western NY and every high school has a pool.  Even many middle schools had them.  And swimming isn’t even a big sport there!  I really don’t understand why our high schools don’t have them here.[/quote]

The answer to all your questions is money. [/quote]

Western NY towns have no where near the money as around here.[/quote]

DP - it's a space thing as much as (more than?) a money thing.  DH is from WNY and we go there often - they have SO much more space for pools than we do.  Not comparable in the slightest.[/quote]

I guess.  There’s space there, but most MoCo high schools have space too if they wanted.  Churchills campus is about 15 acres.  Bigger than the HS I graduated from.  They could get a 25-yard pool in there if they wanted.  [/quote]

Most MCPS high schools don't have near the campus size of those in WNY, much of which is very rural.  The campus of DH's high school is 350+ acres!  Given all the challenges MCPS faces, shelling out for swimming pools for their HS should be way, way down their list of priorities - said as the parent of three MCPS students, all club swimmers.

I'm also not convinced the issue is that high schools don't have pools.  We need more and better public pools that allow access to multiple clubs, not just one.
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