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Same in Austria. Schools have no more access to a pool nearby and just not enough funds to the basic swimming course are a massive problem. Deaths of swimmers,

by TomK32 8y ago

Same in Austria. Schools have no more access to a pool nearby and just not enough funds to the basic swimming course are a massive problem. Deaths of swimmers, from children to young people their twenties are in the austrian news weekly if not daily. On hygiene standards, not much a problem here or in my native Germany, but instead it's a unwillingness by the local administration to fund those public pools. Among the richest countries in the world yet the focus is on some other shit.

tom_mellior 8y ago
> Same in Austria. Schools have no more access to a pool nearby That sounds like there used to be a time when that was different. In my experience, apart from maybe very few private or sport oriented schools, Austrian schools never had a pool. But in Vienna school groups would go to a public pool, of which there were and are many. Not sure if they stopped that, but if they did, it's not for reasons of access. More likely because doing anything outside school grounds is an "excursion" and organizing it probably comes with more and more bureaucratic nightmares.