^^ "It teaches the kids character?!" You're getting old, man. OLD!! 
Do you consider this to be too cold?
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Yeahhh, 73 degrees ambient temperature is winter weather here. About 15 degrees too cold to get in a pool, although if the air and the pool were heated to the same temperature, the water would feel warmer than the air.
I'd take the detention, myself.
I'd take the detention, myself.
No, exactly the opposite is true. As I mentioned upthread, water draws heat away from the body much faster than air does. A 75-degree day feels warm, though not uncomfortably so, to most people. A 75-degree pool feels a tad chilly when you first enter it, though you get used to the temperature quickly.
Ok I take your word for it, although my body tells me something completely different anytime I find myself in a pool under the conditions described in the OP.
And not directed at you personally scotpens, but I really, really resent when people tell me ''oh, you'll acclimate". For some people, water that's chilly on entry stays cold.
Thirded. 73 is a perfect day! (and me being from the South, too)
Would take a minute to get adjusted to the water, but it'd be perfectly fine too. Silly kids.
Unless you're a penguin.
Well, we would go vacationing on the coast of the Baltic Sea when I was a kid, so 23°C sound really warm to me. 
It's a matter of perspective, though, and I don't think schools have the right to detain their pupils. I refused to do a variety of stuff in PE because I was scared of or sucked at them. Thankfully, there's no detention at German schools.
It's a matter of perspective, though, and I don't think schools have the right to detain their pupils. I refused to do a variety of stuff in PE because I was scared of or sucked at them. Thankfully, there's no detention at German schools.73 in the water sounds perfectly acceptable to me. The oceans near me rarely get above 70 or so, yet there are always lots of people there in the summer (usually because it is 90+ inland, and it is a good way to get away from that). When I took a swimming class, we'd be swimming even if it was cold and cloudy. The water is fine once you get moving.
Oh come on. Being too cold has nothing to do with catching a cold.
Oh come on. Being too cold has nothing to do with catching a cold.
Either way, it sounds like the whining mom needs to do some remedial biology.
One of the most enduring health myths going.
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The funny thing is even here in Taiwan where the word for "cold" (as in temperature) and "the cold" as in the rhinovirus don't even have the excuse of being the same word and people still think you'll get sick from a drop in temperature.
I think a problem is that being in chillier weather creates the symptoms of a cold, in that your nose will run....but you haven't really caught a cold.
I think a problem is that being in chillier weather creates the symptoms of a cold, in that your nose will run....but you haven't really caught a cold.
Where I live, if we only went swimming on days over 30C we wouldn't get many swimming days in each year. I think in the last couple of decades the number of days each year where the temperature has climbed over 30C has ranged from between 2 and 14 days. Sometimes it can reach 40C but not very often.
