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Swimming
Pool Health Concerns
Underneath every basketball game at Beverly lies an eminent threat – a proven killer – a lethal body of water. It is known as the Beverly Hills High School swimming pool and nobody knows just how deadly it actually is. Since it kills so quickly, survivors are never left to tell their stories to the press so the issue is kept secret. Now, decades after the pool was built, reports are coming in to the Unconfirmed Report section of Beverly Underground and the truth will be uncovered.
On March 14th, 1969 the BHHS swimming pool was forever changed. For the first time in recorded history, a decent high school pool was rented out over the summer to be used for summer camp. Yes, you heard right folks, summer camp. Masses of 4, 5, and 6 year olds stormed the swim gym. Hordes of toddlers jumped into the crystal-clear blue waters. They came from left and right, front and back, even from above on the 9-foot dive board. One poet put it so eloquently: “The tots poured in like sugar on an apple pie.” Imagine 40 6-year-olds in a single pool. Imagine the urine and the excrement floating around. That day, and all the subsequent days of summer camp at BHHS swimming pool have left a lasting impact on the students of Beverly. What has it done might you ask? It has forever scarred them.
How many times, how many people, how many lives were changed because of the pool? What can be done – if anything? And if something can be done, just what might be done about doing something about the something that is being done? To us, yes – to us – the issue at hand I present. The issue at hand, ah, the issue at hand. How many countless times have people walked up the monstrous staircase to the math department after what they deemed a fresh swim in the pool? Oh, a “fresh swim” as they so often put it. But under these swimmers’ skins lies the disaster - the end of life. It is the pool and it brings about death, destruction, and decimation. Why do we see people dieing in Beverly Hills? The pool! How? Oh yes, how can it do such a thing? Well reports tell us it does. Indeed it does do such a thing. This is how it does: How many times have you come up to the math department after a “fresh swim” and failed a math test? Yes, people blame themselves for the grade, but highly scientific tests prove otherwise. It is the pool. The pool I tell you. No, it is not brought upon by the treacherous pounding the pool has to deal with every basketball game. No, it is not the tons (and yes boys and girls, I mean tons) of chemicals that are loaded into the pool. No, it is not the leftover ash residue from one of the fires that has taken the swim gym aroar. No. It is the ungodly and quite frankly sickening waste that is left from the aftermath of summer camp. It is the foul, the filth, the ghastly remnants of a population long gone in spirit by September. But it is what they leave behind that affects the students. Yes sir re, it is this, that and the other thing. It is this, that and the other thing that is making the students do poorly on tests. Blame falls on everything but the most
obvious culprit: the swimming pool.
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