06-01-2023, 03:54 PM
It doesn't help that only well funded schools can maintain swimming pools and provide basic water skills education to their students.
Schools have to choose between many competing demands on their budgets, and refurbing and maintaining pools to the standards now required, and staffing those facilities is a ongoing cost way higher than it was in the days when we could compete for life saving medals through our schools. It is now left to parents to provide those skills, and more often than not, those parents don't have the skills themselves.
Schools have to choose between many competing demands on their budgets, and refurbing and maintaining pools to the standards now required, and staffing those facilities is a ongoing cost way higher than it was in the days when we could compete for life saving medals through our schools. It is now left to parents to provide those skills, and more often than not, those parents don't have the skills themselves.