Thursday, May 29, 2008

Teaching Black and Hispanic kids how to swim

This is just a follow up on a previous story I had mentioned.

"When Kelvin Franklin heard the results from a recent national study that nearly 60 percent of black children cannot swim, he was not surprised.
As aquatics director at the YMCA's Shades Valley branch, Franklin sees firsthand that minority youths are not as likely as white children to take swimming lessons, mirroring the survey taken by USA Swimming. "



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