I have been swimming in mixed groups (boys/girls) since I was a little one, so I don't have a personal problem with it.
However if it offends Islam, or the Old Order Mennonite faith, or Orthodox Judaism, or even a child's familial or personal sense of propriety, why the heck should it be compulsory?
Mixed swimming is not essential to national security or public order or good citizenship or the essential operation of a public school.
Why can't they do an "accommodation"? That's, to me, a no-brainer. I don't find the counter-arguments I've seen at all persuasive.
Because the Swiss (unlike us) are wise enough to realize it is not about "accommodation" - it is about Muslims attempting to institute Sharia Law through small steps.
Me, neither.
Agreed, and I am sure in CH the Orthodox Jews follow their own laws. They probably quietly do not swim with the school classes but instead swim in their own community pool in summer or on their own time.
Orthodox Jews in Switzerland have rich lives but they don’t make trouble. They take care of their own needs. They are the only Swiss who get to (for real) “keep” their graves.* We Jews aren’t allowed to dig up our dead after 20 years. The rest of the Swiss (except some special old cemeteries) only temporarily rest in their graves, then, whoops, gotta go. Make room for new dead.
*one of the funniest questions I did get when I first lived there. “In Los Angeles, how long do people stay in their graves?”