Comment on ‘A fundamental part of growing up’: Why Aussie kids can’t swim any more
Zagorath@aussie.zone 6 days agoWe never had “swim carnivals”
Huh. I was overseas for the end of primary school and all of high school, but I do remember having swim carnivals when I was here in primary school. My school had its own 25 m pool, and so, from what I’ve seen, do a lot of schools in Brisbane’s middle and outer suburbs (I checked 7 near me and 6 did).
Ilandar@lemmy.today 6 days ago
I wonder if my experience is unusual in Adelaide too. I’m not aware of many public primary schools that had their own swimming pools here back then. My primary school still doesn’t have one despite being much larger now, probably because it’s only a couple of hundred metres back from the beach. Their swimming “curriculum” still seems to be entirely comprised of annual lessons at the same swimming pool they sent us to when I was there.