What’s school without a little competition? So these past few weeks there has been constant talk about the primary school swim competition. With swimming not offered as a class or even an afterschool extracurricular activity I have been questioning the validity and wondering how this will be incorporated into the day. Now, even after the competition has happened I’m still confused about this quite bazaar occurrence.
The competition was done by grade level, so each homeroom had representatives to compete. It was totally optional, so the children that wanted to compete had their parents fill out a form and that was it – no questions asked about swim level or experience. This meant that literally, even if a child could barley hold his/her breath underwater they were eligible…. Well, as you can imagine this was NOT the best idea. The range of swimmers competing was HUGE from kids that have clearly been swimming for years and looked like soon to be Olympic hopefuls to others that actually had to be rescued by a lifeguard. Yeah it was weird – During this time I began to wonder what the school was thinking when they decided this would be a good idea as well as the reasoning any parent would agree to let their child compete knowing that their swim skills were not up to par… At this point all I have to say is, ONLY IN CHINA…
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