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Speaker 1: And Amanda jam Nation.

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Speaker 2: To the Jonesy demand arounds to the pub test school

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Speaker 2: swimming carnivals do they pass the pub test?

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Speaker 3: One in four schools around Australia have dumped the annual

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Speaker 3: swimming carnival and only fifty percent of the So the

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Speaker 3: ones that are holding their swiming carnivals, not every student

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Speaker 3: has to participate. Only fifty percent of students are competing

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Speaker 3: in the swimming carnivals. This decline has threatened lives is

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Speaker 3: saying that we've had a jump in fourteen percent last

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Speaker 3: summer in the number of deaths we've had due to drowning.

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Speaker 3: But the swimming carnival is a perversely disastrously terrifying event.

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Speaker 4: It wasn't for kids.

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Speaker 2: Do you remember as a kid, all you do is

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Speaker 2: you'd sit there and watch. And I was a pretty

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Speaker 2: good swimmer as a kid, but I was back in

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Speaker 2: the seventies. There were kids that were like ten times

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Speaker 2: better swimmers, Like everyone swam, but we'd end up just

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Speaker 2: sitting on hot ashfield watching the good kids swim.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's one thing to be in a running competition

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Speaker 3: and not do very well, but if you're pretty much

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Speaker 3: floundering in a pool, there's humiliation, and you're wearing a cold.

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Speaker 3: You've got to get in the pool. It's and we're

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Speaker 3: more aware these days of how kids feel about their bodies,

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Speaker 3: are more sensitive to all that. Having said that, look

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Speaker 3: at the downside, kids aren't learning to swim anymore. Swimming

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Speaker 3: carnivals do they pass the pub test?

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Speaker 1: Not really well. I think kids are forced into water

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Speaker 1: when some of them can't swim, or they don't know

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Speaker 1: how to diet.

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Speaker 5: They don't want to be embarrassed.

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Speaker 1: They don't want to be made fun of, you know

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Speaker 1: what I mean.

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Speaker 5: I think they should have them. I think they're important

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Speaker 5: because kids need to learn how to swim. I'm a

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Speaker 5: school teacher, so I see the kids go off to

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Speaker 5: swimming lessons and then like the swimming carnival is kind

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Speaker 5: of like you see what they've learned in their swimming lessons.

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Speaker 4: No that I'm past the pub test. Especially for young kids,

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Speaker 4: you've got to drag them there and back. It's a

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Speaker 4: really big day to the parents.

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Speaker 6: I think that average school should have swimming carnivals because

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Speaker 6: some kids have been training their whole life to these things.

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Speaker 6: I'm sure some other kids meant like cross countries athletic carnivals.

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Speaker 6: Some kids have been focused on swimming carnivals, and I

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Speaker 6: don't think they should take it away from them.

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Speaker 1: No, because in year three to six they don't have

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Speaker 1: siming carnivals and then in year seven they have you carnivals.

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Speaker 1: It's not good for body change. The girls a bit

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Speaker 1: funny about their shape of their bodies at their age,

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Speaker 1: and boys are not very nice. So no, it doesn't

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Speaker 1: pass the subtest.

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Speaker 4: I'm a teacher and anything that allows the teacher students

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Speaker 4: report outside of the classroom has to be positive.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know, standing around your cosey all day?

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Speaker 2: Are you with you one piece? Standing next to mister.

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Speaker 3: Made of chain mail, mister. Some in carnivals work for me.

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Speaker 2: German teacher, thank you for all your calls.

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Speaker 1: We didn't have