That was true, dear brocel.
The amount is still good, but often not caused by free lessons at schools. Its now 87 percent of Dutch kids that learn to swim, but often not in primary school. our country has fucked up the financial funding. Since 1985, school swimming has been abolished in the Netherlands, and since then, schools and municipalities can decide for themselves whether to offer school swimming. As a result, school swimming has significantly decreased depending on the finances of the city. In some cities there is only one school participating in the regular school swimming. In the past five years, the number of children between the ages of 6 and 16 without a swimming diploma has doubled from 6 percent to 13 percent. I didn't know this myself. When you are in bed all they never going out, you can read so much IMPORTANT facts. Mental note to myself: o shutup.