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Oh, yes. It is a great time and way to help this young lady be more active, and learn about keeping clean and all kinds of social skills. The teacher feels it is a reward for the paraprofessional (me) as well.

It works occasionally for her.

@LadyDuck Not in the winter in Kansas.

Yes, the aquatics center is indoors and the pool felt really good. It was warm and the showers were warm.

@GardenGerty I was pretty sure you were not talking about an outdoor pool.

Yes, this is set up so area schools can have swim teams and the community can purchase memberships to swim at certain hours. Like a YMCA.

@GardenGerty that is awesome, did you get to go?

@Jessicalynnt Yes, we went. Three staff and one student. We worked and played hard.

Yes, we went. Had to give her a warning in the morning. Her class was watching the inaugaration, she was sleeping. The teacher told her that was not following school rules. She was wide awake and happy to swim It provides opportunity to help her with some of her social skills when we do things like that.

@GardenGerty I'm glad she did well enough to go swimming.

Oh I did. It was wonderful.

@GardenGerty Some days we might go to work even if they didn't pay us.

Sometimes, if they can focus on it and the delay of gratification. It can be a really big deal.

I have collected a lot of cute images. I am ready for a summery beach day. However we will swim at an aquatics center.

I did not mean to be puzzling. I had some typos and did not read. I have a student, actually more than one, who have a hard time following rules. Sometimes, weather permitting, and health permitting, we reward them by taking them swimming at the school aquatic center.

Sometimes, yes, the reward lacks meaning for the student. I think there are other things that come into play, though, like fear of being disappointed or just over excitability. We are constantly looking for meaningful ways to enhance learning in a positive way. For instance, this young lady does not know how to dress herself well and needs practical life skills about cleanliness, and more exercise as well. She gets all of that in a relaxed way when we swim.

She did have a good day, pretty much. We went swimming and worked both on swimming skills and life skills.

@teresatrotter I did not proof read. It is "learning" not "earnings". Guess which mylotter was tired when she posted.