{UAH} A swimming pool scare most parents aren't aware of in schools about our children
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Let me share a swimming pool scare most parents aren't aware of in schools about our children
I have thought about swimming pools at home vs swimming lessons for our kids at school and decided to share to help other parents who may not know that our kids are silently suffering at these outings while at school. I have been paying for swimming lessons for my daughter since primary three in a top school in the city. I once asked her how many children in her class had paid for swimming lessons and she told me only 60 out of 120 in her class. This was now in primary 4. She used to ask me for swimming costumes which l gladly bought to boost her athleticism for swimming. One day I asked my daughter that doesn't she miss lessons anymore or revision while on the swimming practices that lasted 2hours? She simply told me she catches up by copying notes.
One day, now in primary six, my daughter came home almost sick and she told me daddy stop paying for me swimming lessons and let me be at school like other pupils and revise more. To me this was the best news I would want to hear from a daughter in a semi candidate class. After the tragedy of the Kibuule twins, rest in eternal peace, my wife finally told the story behind my daughter's quitting swimming lessons. As the pupils graduated from children's pools, they were introduced to bigger pools and gotten new instructors. But this came with severe consequences. My wife told me that about four times while at the near death trap my daughter revealed that she nearly drowned since the instructors took them to the deeper ends of the adult swimming pools and pushed them one by one and by the time the twenty or so pupils are done you may not notice the near fate of the first ones pushed down there. I felt so touched and imagined how the school would have delivered to me the news of such a tragedy! Drowning.
Knowing the anger and steam it would have generated that time I think my wife rightly kept it from me. But as parents, do we bother to know where our children swim during school outings or have the schools volunteered to invite parents to see how this is conducted?
I urge schools that carry out swimming lessons to up their game and further look deep into the possible ways of averting these would be accidents. Life is precious but let us not be the ultimate avenues for our sorrows. Let us, as parents, do impromptu checks on our kids at these swimming lessons and advise the schools administrations whenever possible. Sharing is power! Sharing is strength.
Kasagga Anthony Stephen
Journalist
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-- I have thought about swimming pools at home vs swimming lessons for our kids at school and decided to share to help other parents who may not know that our kids are silently suffering at these outings while at school. I have been paying for swimming lessons for my daughter since primary three in a top school in the city. I once asked her how many children in her class had paid for swimming lessons and she told me only 60 out of 120 in her class. This was now in primary 4. She used to ask me for swimming costumes which l gladly bought to boost her athleticism for swimming. One day I asked my daughter that doesn't she miss lessons anymore or revision while on the swimming practices that lasted 2hours? She simply told me she catches up by copying notes.
One day, now in primary six, my daughter came home almost sick and she told me daddy stop paying for me swimming lessons and let me be at school like other pupils and revise more. To me this was the best news I would want to hear from a daughter in a semi candidate class. After the tragedy of the Kibuule twins, rest in eternal peace, my wife finally told the story behind my daughter's quitting swimming lessons. As the pupils graduated from children's pools, they were introduced to bigger pools and gotten new instructors. But this came with severe consequences. My wife told me that about four times while at the near death trap my daughter revealed that she nearly drowned since the instructors took them to the deeper ends of the adult swimming pools and pushed them one by one and by the time the twenty or so pupils are done you may not notice the near fate of the first ones pushed down there. I felt so touched and imagined how the school would have delivered to me the news of such a tragedy! Drowning.
Knowing the anger and steam it would have generated that time I think my wife rightly kept it from me. But as parents, do we bother to know where our children swim during school outings or have the schools volunteered to invite parents to see how this is conducted?
I urge schools that carry out swimming lessons to up their game and further look deep into the possible ways of averting these would be accidents. Life is precious but let us not be the ultimate avenues for our sorrows. Let us, as parents, do impromptu checks on our kids at these swimming lessons and advise the schools administrations whenever possible. Sharing is power! Sharing is strength.
Kasagga Anthony Stephen
Journalist
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"When a man is stung by a bee, he doesn't set off to destroy all beehives"
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