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City Recruits Minority Lifeguards Even if They Can’t Swim (http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2013/04/city-recruits-minority-lifeguards-even-if-they-cant-swim/)
In a staggering case of affirmative action gone wild, officials in a major U.S. city are actually recruiting minorities to be lifeguards at public pools even if they’re not good swimmers. It’s all in the name of diversity.
You can’t make this stuff up. It’s a real-life story out of Phoenix, the capitol of Arizona and the nation’s sixth-largest city. It has more than 1.4 million residents and, among its official mottos is “value and respect” of diversity. This means “more than gender and race,” according to the city’s official website. It also encompasses “uniqueness and individuality” and embracing differences. “We put this belief into action to provide effective services to our diverse community.”
Dragbag036
04-05-2013, 15:10
FRICKIN rediculous, absolutely absurd. How the frick hard is it to understand a drowning kid. There is no need to speak the language. WTF!!!:confused: Diversification Stupidity
Interesting
But the bottom line - just how will they implement the program.
if they recruit minorities, teach them how to swim and then send them to the required life saving course - and they pass - I've got no problem with it.
If they take short cuts and don't hold the minorities to the same basic standards - I got big problems with it.
PS - I didn't know pool life guards got in the water anyway. I thought they just poked sleepers with those long poles.
Another important win for diversity and equality!
Interesting
But the bottom line - just how will they implement the program.
if they recruit minorities, teach them how to swim and then send them to the required life saving course - and they pass - I've got no problem with it.
If they take short cuts and don't hold the minorities to the same basic standards - I got big problems with it.
That's similar to my view regarding the office of POTUS.
longrange1947
04-05-2013, 15:58
PS - I didn't know pool life guards got in the water anyway. I thought they just poked sleepers with those long poles.
Hey there, be nice! :p
I got stuck at Sukairan Troop Pool on Oki in 94 for my last 3 months on the island as I was non-deployable with less than 3 months. That was a miserable 3 months of breaking up fights, and trying to keep my sanity in the afternoons while teaching little kids to swim in the mornings. Will say that I saw something I have never seen since. Lightening struck the high board and danced all the way across the pool to our office where we sit wet and ..................... It was an aw shit moment. :D
If they teach them how to be life guards and they can pass the Red Cross Life Guard course, good on them. If they are just putting them out there to show "diversity" then some kid will pay the price with his life.
Team Sergeant
04-05-2013, 16:10
I've heard rumor that it's a program with the aim of cutting down on the number of undocumented democrats drowning while crossing the Rio Grande.:munchin
I've heard rumor that it's a program with the aim of cutting down on the number of undocumented democrats drowning while crossing the Rio Grande.:munchin
I have to believe that if one of those undocumented democrats drowns,,
The ambulance chasers will have their next convention in Phoenix,,
as a thank you to Phoenix and their insurance company..
Wonder how much their insurance coverage is going up, when they hear about unqualified Life Guards??
My city TRIED to pull this. Our mayor, Paul Winfield, currently out on bond for elliciting bribes AND running for re-election, had to solve a problem. Due to longhours and low wages, the city of Vicksburg, MS could not recruit the 28 lifeguards that it needed to staff City Pool last summer. The pool director resigned when he sent a public transportation bus to King's Housing Project and loaded it up with 30-odd lifeguard candidates. Kathy (pool director) swim tested them. ZERO passed. Our good mayor was informed and came up with an excellent solution: you teach swimming lessons. "Teach them to swim and then train them to be lifeguards. You have a month." Obviously, didn't happen.
Life in the Third World. They had to offer raises to get any qualified lifeguards. Got less than a dozen. One of my sons guards at the Knights of Columbus and the other at the country club.
Dragbag036
04-06-2013, 10:55
They could just hire the swimtest floatee guy :D
Badger52
04-06-2013, 16:29
If they take short cuts and don't hold the minorities to the same basic standards - I got big problems with it.Yes, time will tell sir. Part of this sounds like SSDD going on for decades. I recall the Cal State Univ system during a break on the GI Bill back in the early 70's. 16 sem hrs for non-white ethnic groups could be covered by <fill-in-ethnic-origin> Studies, attendance restricted to that group, and basic requirement ended up 108 sh vs. 120 for everyone else.
Equitable implementation is key as you note; if not, just more of the same larger problem. Like pilots & military they need to train for when things go south. Lowering standards doesn't cut it when you need to go get some kid in the surf, get them to accept the tow-rope, and backstroke their rip-tided ass out around the breakwater.
Probably not too much big surf in Phoenix though...
you got them waaaave pools down there?
:)
I'll bet EVERY single Lawyer who saw this just started salivating at the prospect of any and all impending lawsuits filed against the city, when poor little Johnny, Susie, Juan, or Marie drown at a pool because the Life Guard couldn't swim.
It's going to be an E-X-P-E-N-S-I-V-E lesson, that's for sure.
:munchin