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Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB
They're big here in Seattle and the suburbs, too. Country clubs and neighborhood swim clubs. I grew up doing swim and dive team. I was so surprised when I went to college in Calif. and met so many people that didn't know how to swim! I figured it must have been because the kids grew up going to the beach and just played around in their backyard pools instead of swimming actual strokes and laps as part of a team.
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I grew up in the suburbs. All the neighborhood kids knew how to swim (we had an in-ground pool, so they'd all be over at our house on hot summer days). When I went off to college, I was surprised at how many people didn't know to swim. There's a bunch of girls in my chapter that can't swim. It seems like it's the girls who grew up in the suburbs that know how to swim, while the girls who grew up in the city who don't know how to swim (same thing with driving). Also, from talking with some girls from my chapter, it seems like suburban high schools tend to have swimming as a required gym class, while urban high schools do not.