Swimming Against the Tide(The 1st Reading Blog)

Title: Swimming Against the Tide
by Kate Dailey September 03, 2010

This week I've read an article called Swimming Against the Tide. In this article, the author told about fighting the high rate of drowning among African-American children. Some people who fear the water always think that nine people are drowning a day. But, like Anderson said in this article: "We’re also dispelling the stereotype that minorities can’t swim." I was agree with Anderson's point of view. Why do not we learn how to swim before we get drowning.

When many families head to the beach for a last vacation before the beginning of the school year. But even without the challenging conditions, certain families are more at risk for drowning than others: African-American children drown at a rate three times that of their white counterparts, an issue that has as much to do with fear as it does finances. However, some of their families are not encouraging their kids to learn to swim. Counterintuitively, they were afraid that they would drown if they were around pools and learned to swim.

Organizations like USA Swimming have been formed to help black children learn to swim. The group also designs its water-safety class to assuage parental fears while getting kids excited about swimming. African-American children would better learn how to swim and face the fear about water. Also the parents of African- American would better encourager their children to learn swim. This must be great way to reduce the rate of drowning because children learn swim which is not only to protect themselves to not drown but also make their psychological quality and body more strong.