🍺 PUB TEST: How Do You Feel About School Swimming Carnivals?

Do school swimming carnivals pass the pub test?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda jam Nation.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
To the Jonesy demand arounds to the pub test school
swimming carnivals do they pass the pub test?

Speaker 3 (00:08):
One in four schools around Australia have dumped the annual
swimming carnival and only fifty percent of the So the
ones that are holding their swiming carnivals, not every student
has to participate. Only fifty percent of students are competing
in the swimming carnivals. This decline has threatened lives is
saying that we've had a jump in fourteen percent last
summer in the number of deaths we've had due to drowning.

(00:31):
But the swimming carnival is a perversely disastrously terrifying event.

Speaker 4 (00:35):
It wasn't for kids.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Do you remember as a kid, all you do is
you'd sit there and watch. And I was a pretty
good swimmer as a kid, but I was back in
the seventies. There were kids that were like ten times
better swimmers, Like everyone swam, but we'd end up just
sitting on hot ashfield watching the good kids swim.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
Well, it's one thing to be in a running competition
and not do very well, but if you're pretty much
floundering in a pool, there's humiliation, and you're wearing a cold.
You've got to get in the pool. It's and we're
more aware these days of how kids feel about their bodies,
are more sensitive to all that. Having said that, look
at the downside, kids aren't learning to swim anymore. Swimming
carnivals do they pass the pub test?

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Not really well. I think kids are forced into water
when some of them can't swim, or they don't know
how to diet.

Speaker 5 (01:19):
They don't want to be embarrassed.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
They don't want to be made fun of, you know
what I mean.

Speaker 5 (01:23):
I think they should have them. I think they're important
because kids need to learn how to swim. I'm a
school teacher, so I see the kids go off to
swimming lessons and then like the swimming carnival is kind
of like you see what they've learned in their swimming lessons.

Speaker 4 (01:39):
No that I'm past the pub test. Especially for young kids,
you've got to drag them there and back. It's a
really big day to the parents.

Speaker 6 (01:48):
I think that average school should have swimming carnivals because
some kids have been training their whole life to these things.
I'm sure some other kids meant like cross countries athletic carnivals.
Some kids have been focused on swimming carnivals, and I
don't think they should take it away from them.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
No, because in year three to six they don't have
siming carnivals and then in year seven they have you carnivals.
It's not good for body change. The girls a bit
funny about their shape of their bodies at their age,
and boys are not very nice. So no, it doesn't
pass the subtest.

Speaker 4 (02:21):
I'm a teacher and anything that allows the teacher students
report outside of the classroom has to be positive.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
Yeah, I don't know, standing around your cosey all day?

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Are you with you one piece? Standing next to mister.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
Made of chain mail, mister. Some in carnivals work for me.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
German teacher, thank you for all your calls.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
We didn't have