Locker Room Question
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My youngest daughter is in the third grade, and at the start of the current school year her teacher told the class that if they read 10 books by the winter break that they would be given a reward of some sort in the form of a party or similar function.
The children met that reading requirement and they requested that they be given a pool party. The teacher made arrangements to use a nearby high school's pool last Friday. The teacher asked for two of the mothers and two of the fathers who are able to swim to volunteer to go to the pool with her to help supervise the children in the pool and locker rooms. I was one of the two mothers that volunteered to assist the teacher for the pool party. After the swim party was over the teacher and the other mom and myself entered the girls locker room. The teacher told all of the girls that they should shower off for at least five minutes in the showers. The showers in the locker room were "shower trees" which is a number of different shower heads that are in a circle on a poll in the middle. So the showers were out in the open of the locker room with no privacy. The teacher did NOT specify whether the girls should shower in their swimsuits or in the nude. All but 3 out of the 12 girls showered in the nude by their own choosing, the other 3 girls kept their swimsuits on. The other mom that was there to help supervise the children took her swimsuit off to shower. I figured that if the other mom and most of the girls were showering in the nude by their own choosing, that there was no harm in me doing the same. After I took my swimsuit off the teacher asked the other mom and myself if we thought that it was alright for her to shower in the nude as well, or if we thought that some parents might be upset if it got back to them. We said that we didn't see any harm in it, so the teacher also showered in the nude. Truth be told, it was obvious that several of the girls did take notice of the fact that their teacher was nude. But after a few quick glances and a few giggles they just went back to talking among themselves. That was on Friday of last week. So on Monday of this week we found out that the single father of one of the girls from the class is upset that his daughter had showered in the nude in front of the other girls, and he's especially upset that the teacher had showered nude in the presence of the girls. The other mom and myself made separate calls to the girls father and we explained to him that his daughter showered nude by her own choosing, and that we had told the teacher that we found nothing wrong with the teacher showering nude as well. The teacher is in her second year of teaching, and she's an extremely nice and caring young woman that all of the children love. We think that we were able to talk the father down from some of his anger? I'm just curious to hear feedback from some of you parents as to whether this mans anger is warranted, or if he's making a big deal out of nothing? |
Anonymous
| The teacher and the moms should not have showered nude if you are in the US. How could you not know this? |
Anonymous
| I would not have wanted my kid to shower nude and None of the adults should have been naked. I would be pissed if my kid told me you all had done this. Is this a private school? |
Anonymous
How inappropriate. Really, the kids should have rinsed off in their suits given it was a school field trip. |
Anonymous
+1 A lot of very poor judgment going on there. |
Anonymous
| Its a locker room, people are naked. That said, I would never have made the kids shower. |
Anonymous
People are never naked on an elementary school field trip. |
Anonymous
Teacher should get fired over this. |
Anonymous
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I am a swimmer and I swam from grade school up through college. I am used to showering in front of other people in a locker room and have done so since I was a little girl.
However, this was a field trip. A field trip with a bunch of children from different home lives and with different believe systems is vastly different from a friend outing or swim team or a day at the pool. I don't think that any of the adult chaperones (male or female) should have showered in the nude in an open area because you don't know all of the children's family structures/feelings about nudity. If there had been shower cubicles with curtains then that would have been a different story for the adults. I also would have erred on the side of caution and had the children shower in their suits. I also am a teacher. I am glad that you think that you were able to talk the father down. The teacher may have irreparably harmed her rep by listening to your advice. I hope that you discuss it with her (if her principal hasn't already) and told her that you gave her bad advice and that she should not have showered without her swimsuit in front of her students. You just never know how people will react and she needs to know that she will be judged by everyone else's value system and she needs to adjust for that. |
Anonymous
| Fire teacher. Nudity is not allowed on school field trips. |
Anonymous
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This has to be a private school.
If this were a public school the teacher should be removed from the class. |
Anonymous
| Uh, if the teacher and the mom went swimming, how were they going to dry off and change back into their day clothes without being nude regardless of whether or not they had the swimsuit on in the shower? |
Anonymous
discreetly |
Anonymous
| GOD FORBID SOMEONE SEE THE TEACHER'S NAUGHTY BITS |
Anonymous
In this situation I would go into a stall and change there. Shower as soon as I get home. What the teacher and moms did was inappropriate. - teacher. |