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Should swimming lessons be mandatory in schools?

chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2019-11-16 09:00

Boilermaker21 (Expat in China)

There are swimming lessons in my city, but I was very disappointed in how they were taught. The kids spent 45 minutes of the one hour lesson practicing strokes ON DRY LAND. They only spent 15 minutes in the water. All of the children panicked and sank immediately to the bottom. Then all of the parents berated the children, telling them that they weren't paying attention to the teacher and that they were failures. I removed my kids from the lessons and taught them on my own.

Students attend swimming class at No 4 Experimental Primary School in Jimo, East China's Shandong province, Aug 21, 2017. A 25-meter-long and 15-meter-wide mobile swimming pool was installed here during summer vacation for students learning swimming for free. [Photo by Liang Xiaopeng/Xinhua]
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