Swimming Pool and Open Water Use

When school groups are using any of our local pools for recreation or swimming lessons where the pool provides the instructors and/or lifeguards, the pool staff is responsible for the children as soon as they reach the pool deck.  The school district staff is responsible for supervision in the locker room areas.  In order to maintain adequate supervision in the locker rooms, the following guidelines are established and will be followed:

1. Groups will be accompanied by at least one adult monitor of each sex; and
2. Monitors will supervise the children while they are in the locker rooms; and
3. Monitors will remain in the locker rooms until the last child has left; and
4. Appropriate permission and release forms shall be used.

When school groups wish to participate in swimming activities where paid pool or waterfront staff is not provided, the school group must provide a trained lifeguard with the following certification:

1. American Red Cross Adult CPR or American Heart Association CPR; and
2. American Red Cross Standard First Aid or American Heart Association First Aid; and 

3. American Red Cross lifeguard training.

 This includes the use of motel pools.

Open Water (Rivers, Lakes, Bays, Lagoons, Reservoirs or Ocean)

When school groups are using open water for activities (some examples include, but not limited to, swimming, surfing, kayaking and paddle boarding) a lifeguard certified with a Waterfront certificate must be present, and on duty, while any students are in the water. 

Surfing shall be limited to Moonstone Beach and South Beach (Crescent City).  South Beach usage is limited only to where South Beach parallels Hwy 101.

Before students are allowed to begin any water activity, a strict review of the rules governing the area needs to be provided and the rules must be strictly enforced at all times. 

Under no circumstances should any student be allowed to go in the water wearing regular street clothes.