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| - Citiparks, swim lessons, All-City Sports Camps, Summer Dreamers, varsity teams, age group teams, middle school teams, elementary school teams, and community programs all blend and mix and need coordination. PPS operates nearly 20 school pools. The city of Pittsburgh has many outdoor pools and one indoor facility, the Oliver Bath House. Associations with Kingsley Center, YMCA, JCC, colleges and charter schools are expected. Example: No person has ever died after missing a 3-point basketball shot. On the other hand, if someone finds himself in deep water and can't swim, death is a possibility.
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| - Citiparks, swim lessons, All-City Sports Camps, Summer Dreamers, varsity teams, age group teams, middle school teams, elementary school teams, and community programs all blend and mix and need coordination. PPS operates nearly 20 school pools. The city of Pittsburgh has many outdoor pools and one indoor facility, the Oliver Bath House. Associations with Kingsley Center, YMCA, JCC, colleges and charter schools are expected. Swimming is important as swimming is a life saving skill. Since kids of color are six-times more likely to die by drowning and since drowning is one of the leading causes of accidental deaths for kids, and since PPS swim facilities are already built, and since Swim & Water Polo Camp was the most popular option for kids and families in the 2013 Summer Dreamers sign up process, let's insure our kids get into the pool and get to swim. Knowing how to swim saves lives. PPS H20 will teach every 7-year-old in the city how to swim for free if PPS Board would give access to the public swim pools in our schools. This significant “reach goal” for PPS H2O can rally the community. The plans of a gratis swim team experience for every 7-year-old in the city will “re-create” swimming in this town with three rivers. With the PPS pools and the Oliver Bath House, especially in the summer, kids can get into swimming at an ideal age as reading and mental skills mature. Concepts of times, strokes, rules, standards, whole-body movements, team-spirit and races should be mastered in the pool at “Winning Swimming Rookie Camps.” As the kids grow, those that enjoy swimming continue and pay modest user fees. The time is right for the new PPS board with the new Pittsburgh mayor to pass new policies and a resolution (that costs nothing) so as to provide access for our programs within already existing swimming pools in our public buildings. Getting access to swim pools has been nearly impossible. All the PPS pools are closed all summer with few exceptions. Pools are closed, for the most part, on afternoons, evenings, nights, weekends and vacation days. Access to swim pools isn't needed 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, but rather when the custodians are already on duty in the buildings. Example: No person has ever died after missing a 3-point basketball shot. On the other hand, if someone finds himself in deep water and can't swim, death is a possibility. Example: PPS H2O would operate with tight relationships with Citiparks and others. See the 8 page newspaper supplement published with the South Pittsburgh Reporter that was part of Swim & Water Polo Camps in July 2013.
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