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| Topic | How do people not know how to swim? |
| ParanoidObsessive 06/17/21 5:48:43 PM #35: | Kyuubi4269 posted... Why are Americans so incapable of raising their children with basic skills? Hardly just an American problem when you consider the numbers globally are something like 50-50. In the UK the number is somewhere around 1-in-3 can't swim. It's also been suggested that people who grow up with parents who can't swim have about a 90% chance of never learning to swim, and only about a 10% chance of learning. Nichtcrawler X posted... Take the bus to the nearest pool. Not that difficult. And what if there is no "nearest pool" (at least not in anything resembling reasonable distance)? Or there is, but it's private and you're not allowed to use it (or it costs money to do so, and you can't afford it)? Or it requires a time investment, and you can't really justify it? In the US, it's also complicated by the fact that school budgets a) aren't necessarily universal, and b) are already strained to the breaking point in some cases (which is why you hear about schools abolishing music programs or otherwise doing away with things they consider "superfluous" that other people consider far more important). In many cases, it's extremely difficult. People who oversimplify the situation are generally being ignorant and just making sweeping generalizations. It's a more complicated issue than some people would like to believe. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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