• GibsonisafluffybuttBanned from community
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    I grew up here but my father was a lunatic so I wasn’t allowed to do anything growing up that wasn’t study. No friends till high school, no swimming, no school camp.

    Took a long time to get over it.

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      Then what did you do while your class was in swimming lessons? That’s some next-level stuff to take your kid out of a class teaching an essential life skills. I didn’t even realise it was possible to opt-out of school swimming lessons.

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        I had to sit by the side of the pool and watch. It certainly looked fun (sad lol)

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          I’m trying to figure out how he justified this. Was it that he had to pay a couple of dollars for the swimming lessons? I honestly can’t figure out why you’d deny this to your child.

          I don’t remember learning to swim, and my own kids were in the pool as soon as they had their 6-month vaccinations. Aussie kids grow up in water.