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I think most European countries have swim lessons in Physical Education classes. At least Portugal does, I had it every year in middle school.
by world2vec 3y ago
I think most European countries have swim lessons in Physical Education classes. At least Portugal does, I had it every year in middle school.
- DoingIsLearning 3y agoYou were very fortunate in your experience but there is no mandated swimming and there is no PE mandatory swimming program in Portugal. Swimming lessons for kids are possible of course but they are organized via sports clubs or municipal swimming pools both of which are not free.
- world2vec 3y agoDidn't knew that. It was a municipal swimming pool indeed. But everyone I know in other places also had swimming classes IIRC. Possibly it's harder to provide it in more urban areas (small northern town here)?
- ajmurmann 3y agoSame when I went to school in Germany. That said, the public pool I went to feel into disrepair a few years ago and got shut down because the community couldn't fund it. I'd estimate the nearest public pool now to be 30 minutes away which probably means no swim lessons for kids now. It's interesting how that's deteriorated because my school even used to have its own pool till a few years before I attended. So the town went from at least two pools in the 70s to zero now. The area also used to have multiple seasonal, outdoor pools in the 60s and 70s all of which were gone by the 90s. Everyone got richer, but we cannot have these small communal delights anymore.