Celebrating Different Learning Speeds in Swim Class
On a Tuesday afternoon the shallow end tells a full story. A five year old boy who learned to blow bubbles in the bath is now inching his nose toward the surface, then pulling back. Next to him a girl his age is already splashing into jump entries, popping up for air with a quick roll to her back. At the teaching platform a toddler in a reusable swim diaper drum taps the water and grins at the ripples, while his twin clings to my shoulder like a tree koala. Their speeds are