Her body was found Thursday. She was 24. And she couldn't swim. Walter Brock, assistant superintendent for instruction in Clay County, where Bartlett was reared, agrees with Haynes-Bodison. But, he says, limited resources would make it tough for the schools to provide mandatory swimming classes.
Clay County accommodates only students who swim competitively.
Even then, those students use pools at the YMCA, Jacksonville Naval Air Station or Cecil Field, or at resorts and country clubs. And I don't believe that any school district will argue that point. The swimming and water safety classes at Carver, however, have endured for 20 years. Principal Aliette Register says the Johnson branch of the YMCA still provides the class each May for children at the Northwest Jacksonville school. But it is still up to the parents as to whether their child can take it, Register says.