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Things That Make Me Sad

  • May. 1st, 2008 at 5:55 PM
Pinky
Apparently almost 60% of Black children, and 55% of Hispanic kids can't swim. 
With summer coming up that makes me sad. Swimming is a fun, inexpensive, and healthy activity. Growing up, I loved swimming and we did almost almost every day.  If it wasn't at someone's home, or a community center, we went to the beach.  When I moved to the South,  I was surprised by how few people had pools. Particularly in Tennessee.  There also seem to be few community pools.   It's hot as  the surface of the sun down here in the summer time.  I hope that more summer swim programs for low income kids start popping up and that people take advantage of  those kind of opportunities.

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[info]yertlegirl wrote:
May. 2nd, 2008 02:20 am (UTC)
lady, i hear you. none of the kids on my caseload know how to swim and like 2 (of 30) own bikes. they all of course have video games and TVs but i wish they would swim or play basketball or ride bikes or something....especially during the summer.