“if you couldn’t pass a swimming test during orientation, one of them would be swimming”
I am fine with that. I can’t remember ever not being able to swim, but they say a lot of POC can’t. Under certain circumstances it is more important than even reading and since it can’t be super expensive to teach I say got for it. But rock climbing subsidized by my tax dollars? No way.
We had to pass a swimming test at my school, but I seem to recall that we didn’t have to use a swimming stroke. We had to be able to tread water for a certain amount of time and complete two lengths of the pool in some manner. You could dog paddle.
As for the segregated rock climbing, I’m glad they got busted. The groups they wanted to include would probably end up segregating either further into little subgroups.