There are four main factors that impact on the lack of swimming in children; time, cost, place, and knowledge and understanding. We need to change all of them to make the renovation to be fully success.
- Time: Child is the age of learning and gather as much information as they could, the higher grade they are in, the more time they need to study. Some people send their child to tutoring school, so their child can enter the good university. Some children works to help financing their family. Therefore, children have a limited amount of free time each day, and they usually spend their free time relaxing from tired. The government, especially the ministry of education need to step up and encourage or force them to learn swimming. Some methods are specify swimming into the learning area, introduce to PE teachers to teach swimming to their student (by considering about the number of students, time, the capacity of the pool and the capability of the teacher) or set swimming as one criterion to enter secondary school etc. Students that know how to swim can swim for the rest of their life. Therefore, instead of having a few swimming lessons each year, why not we manage to have a half-year or a full-year swimming lesson for one year and do something else next year. In this case, students will have the continuity and it is easier to be able to swim.
- Cost: The cost of swimming lesson is quite expensive to the poor, this is the case that there are some pool exist in that area. If there is no pool then there is no swimming lesson. The government should build some public pool in every certain area, either base on a certain distance or a certain population in the area. The government should also support some free lesson for not only children but also adults who are willing to take the course.
- Place: Only some high ranking public school and some expensive private school own swimming pool, which contain middle financial and high financial students, who normally can pay for swimming lesson. This is not really focusing on the one that really cannot swim. Local schools definitely cannot financing a swimming pool. The cost of building is more than hundred thousands, this is not include the price of the land and the maintenance fee. Someone need to support them. However, students do not really need swimming pool to learn swimming, they can redo what our ancestor did. In the past Thai children learn swimming in near by canal or river, which is not polluted back then. Today, water in the canal and river is polluted and it is not suitable from people to swim. We have to campaign about cleaning the environment and need a good waste water treatment systems, it is expensive but the benefit is worth it. If the water is clean again, the habit of swimming is the canal and river will be back for sure.
- Knowledge and Understanding: This is maybe the most important factor because children this day spend their life with technology and comfortability. They really depend on technology more than they own skill. They think that now they have raft, life guard and boat, so they do not need to learn swimming. This attitude toward swimming is not right. There should be some organization to step up and really point out the important and how necessary swimming is to them, make them understand the issue and convince them to learn swimming.