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<blockquote data-quote="Andy" data-source="post: 420058" data-attributes="member: 5096"><p>Thank you! Just to assure you, he is getting swimming lessons and can swim a bit. I just wouldn't want any of my kids regardless of their abilities to be put into a pool with a very large gym class. Even if he was a champion swimmer I would be against swimming in this situation. He can enjoy swimming in smaller pools in a small setting of family and friends. If he goes swimming at a beach, he will only be there with friends who will be watching out for each other. Kids in a pool with 30 + other kids get easily distracted and don't pay attention to each other so someone in trouble would be less likely to be seen than in a smaller setting. And the noise in the pool room is soooo loud, there would be no way for the teacher to distinguish a real scream for help over a loud laughter of someone accepting their friends goofing off.</p><p> </p><p>He also is not overweight. If anything, he is closer to being underweight. However, I know that even kids underweight or just the right weight will be harrassed. Mean words don't always match the real size of the person they are targeted to. (Diva would have had to face that ridicule of being overweight if she had gone to the public school)</p><p> </p><p>There is enough meaness going on before and after school and at lunch and recess with very limited supervision - don't need to add a pool situation to that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Andy, post: 420058, member: 5096"] Thank you! Just to assure you, he is getting swimming lessons and can swim a bit. I just wouldn't want any of my kids regardless of their abilities to be put into a pool with a very large gym class. Even if he was a champion swimmer I would be against swimming in this situation. He can enjoy swimming in smaller pools in a small setting of family and friends. If he goes swimming at a beach, he will only be there with friends who will be watching out for each other. Kids in a pool with 30 + other kids get easily distracted and don't pay attention to each other so someone in trouble would be less likely to be seen than in a smaller setting. And the noise in the pool room is soooo loud, there would be no way for the teacher to distinguish a real scream for help over a loud laughter of someone accepting their friends goofing off. He also is not overweight. If anything, he is closer to being underweight. However, I know that even kids underweight or just the right weight will be harrassed. Mean words don't always match the real size of the person they are targeted to. (Diva would have had to face that ridicule of being overweight if she had gone to the public school) There is enough meaness going on before and after school and at lunch and recess with very limited supervision - don't need to add a pool situation to that. [/QUOTE]
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