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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 419928" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>In Australia we have compulsory swimming classes in elementary school. A lot of time is spent on it - it's not just a gym class, in fact towards the end of the school year, the kids can spend half of each consecutive day for several weeks, being taught swimming at the nearest swimming pool. Several grades go, learning at increasingly complex levels right up to lifesaving grade.</p><p></p><p>On the subject of kids torturing others at school swimming pools, husband has an interesting memory. He attended a farming high school, the school was very large and had a working farm on it, operated as part of the lessons. Someone decided it would be fun to hook the electric fence up to the urinal in the boy's bathroom at the school swimming pool. The urinal was stainless steel and there was another piece of stainless steel that boys stood on in front of the urinal. With the urinal itself 'live' and boys standing there barefoot, wet from the swimming pool, as they began to empty their bladders they completed the circuit. Imagine a "kazang" hitting you right where it hurts. Initial reaction is "What the...?" followed by re-starting the flow. Kazang!! again, harder this time, because successive voltage shocks always feel worse (neurological recruitment) and they would work it out. </p><p></p><p>Nasty.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 419928, member: 1991"] In Australia we have compulsory swimming classes in elementary school. A lot of time is spent on it - it's not just a gym class, in fact towards the end of the school year, the kids can spend half of each consecutive day for several weeks, being taught swimming at the nearest swimming pool. Several grades go, learning at increasingly complex levels right up to lifesaving grade. On the subject of kids torturing others at school swimming pools, husband has an interesting memory. He attended a farming high school, the school was very large and had a working farm on it, operated as part of the lessons. Someone decided it would be fun to hook the electric fence up to the urinal in the boy's bathroom at the school swimming pool. The urinal was stainless steel and there was another piece of stainless steel that boys stood on in front of the urinal. With the urinal itself 'live' and boys standing there barefoot, wet from the swimming pool, as they began to empty their bladders they completed the circuit. Imagine a "kazang" hitting you right where it hurts. Initial reaction is "What the...?" followed by re-starting the flow. Kazang!! again, harder this time, because successive voltage shocks always feel worse (neurological recruitment) and they would work it out. Nasty. Marg [/QUOTE]
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