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Questionble values.(FROM THE EDITOR)
Not so long ago, the ability to swim was considered a valuable skill in America, so valuable, you couldn't graduate from many colleges without it. Not anymore.
Somewhere along the way, swimming got conflated with overall fitness. One study shows that in 1977, 42 percent of colleges had some kind of swimming requirement for graduation. By 1982, only 8 percent did. After that, researchers didn't even bother asking about it.
Swimming seems to have seen a similar decline in K-12 education for many of the same reasons. Budgets are tight. Maintaining pools is expensive. Other fitness activities can fill the void.
The only problem is, they can't.
Jogging around a track, jumping on a trampoline or learning to stretch may improve fitness, but they won't save a young person's life. The ability to swim will. That's especially relevant given that drowning is the No. 2 cause of unintentional death for children age 14 and under in the United States, second only to auto accidents.
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Source: HighBeam Research, Questionble values.(FROM THE EDITOR)