everyone wants to know how to swim, every parent wants their kid to know how to swim.
the number one cause of death in children is accidents we all know that. car crashes are the single biggest source of accidental accidents, and slightly less than motor vehicle deaths you'll find drowning (depends on the age group how high it is).
One of the single biggest preventable causes of death could be stopped if all you did was teach kids to swim.
The only question next is how to do it. I know with smoking we have massive smoking campaigns, federally funded, with automobiles there are federally mandated airbags, for fatties, doctors will put their patients on a diet and suggest exercise programs.
Now, perhaps you think it is not the government's business to teach swimming. THATS FINE. But dont you dare tell other people not to worry about this and want to start up programs that will teach black kids how to swim.
Actually I think that it would be nice if the schools taught everyone how to swim, black white whatever. The nederlands does this, to pass school you need to know how to swim. And because of this the nederlands has one of the lowest rates of death by drowning.
Remember that universities used to have requirements for physical education, harvard used to not allow students to graduate unless they could swim.
The question is not forget about it and shut the hell up, the only question is, where when how and why is the best way to teach everyone how to swim.
There is so much useless crap taught in schools today. If the kids learned how to swim at school at least there would be one good thing they learned.
How much of a libertarian are you? Do you think that all the government, all the schools they should all be razed that all the cars with their safety features all the government regulation should be halted, that the cigarette taxes on cigarettes, the luxury tax should be abolished so that cigarettes will be $1 a pack, that smokers will be allowed to light up in public buildings once again?
Because swimming is just like all those other things, it's a problem which can be fixed with the help of public and private institutions.
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Date: 2008-05-02 03:38 pm (UTC)the number one cause of death in children is accidents we all know that. car crashes are the single biggest source of accidental accidents, and slightly less than motor vehicle deaths you'll find drowning (depends on the age group how high it is).
One of the single biggest preventable causes of death could be stopped if all you did was teach kids to swim.
The only question next is how to do it. I know with smoking we have massive smoking campaigns, federally funded, with automobiles there are federally mandated airbags, for fatties, doctors will put their patients on a diet and suggest exercise programs.
Now, perhaps you think it is not the government's business to teach swimming. THATS FINE. But dont you dare tell other people not to worry about this and want to start up programs that will teach black kids how to swim.
Actually I think that it would be nice if the schools taught everyone how to swim, black white whatever. The nederlands does this, to pass school you need to know how to swim. And because of this the nederlands has one of the lowest rates of death by drowning.
Remember that universities used to have requirements for physical education, harvard used to not allow students to graduate unless they could swim.
The question is not forget about it and shut the hell up, the only question is, where when how and why is the best way to teach everyone how to swim.
There is so much useless crap taught in schools today. If the kids learned how to swim at school at least there would be one good thing they learned.
How much of a libertarian are you? Do you think that all the government, all the schools they should all be razed that all the cars with their safety features all the government regulation should be halted, that the cigarette taxes on cigarettes, the luxury tax should be abolished so that cigarettes will be $1 a pack, that smokers will be allowed to light up in public buildings once again?
Because swimming is just like all those other things, it's a problem which can be fixed with the help of public and private institutions.