> When I was a kid, no school had a swim team because we didn't have pools. Can't put in a new school without state of the art gym, sports fields, often a pool.

> When I was a kid, no school had a swim team because we didn't have pools. Can't put in a new school without state of the art gym, sports fields, often a pool. Giant auditoriums so your taxes can pay whack-job public speakers. When I was a kid I attended at least two schools built decades earlier, that had pools, but they weren't in use because they could no longer afford the cost of maintenance and (I assume) insurance and such. None of the newer buildings had pools at all. Ones they've built in the couple decades since I graduated don't have pools, either. These weren't in, like, slums, either. These were relatively rich districts. I associate pools with 60s and 70s schooling, mainly. Was probably really damn nice. [EDIT] Not sure why the downvotes. My point is the parent is extrapolating an awful lot from a very narrow set of experiences. Maybe that wasn't clear enough.