Swim Club Invites Children Back
Swim Club Invites Children Back after a bad decision made in June of 2009. The suburban Philadelphia swim club has voted to invited children from a largely minority day care center to come back after they refused them swimming rights for the summer. That fueled allegations of racism against Valley Club in Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania.
Children from the Creative Steps Day Care Center stated that some of the private club members made racial remarks.
The development came after a meeting called Sunday afternoon on July 12th, 2009.
At the meeting of the Valley Club in Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania, club members voted overwhelmingly to try to work things out with the day care center, which accused some swim club members of making racist comments to black and Hispanic children contracted to use the pool.
Duesler said the club canceled its contract with the Creative Steps day-care because of safety, crowding and noise concerns, not racism.
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“As long as we can work out safety issues, we’d like to have them back,” the swim club told CNN.
Could it have possibly had something to do with the fact that the club has been subpoenaed by the state Human Rights Commission, which has begun a fact finding investigation?
I am sure that their legal advice was to try to get together with these camps.
Alethea Wright, Creative Steps’ director, said, “They should have done that before.”
I agree with Ms. Wright. How easy it would have all been to work with the center and get its kids in the pool. How hard would it have been for the swim club to hire extra lifeguards and make a better schedule? Not too hard unless there were…issues of racism.
For the full story “Swim Club Invites Children Back,” and what has happened to these chidren who just wanted to have fun this summer, go to NBCPhiladelphia.com
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i guess we’ll never know what happened
If I were the children I wouldn;t want to go back because I am not really welcome they were more or less forced to change their mind.