Showering after middle/high school gym class

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ha - it was required sometimes in my MD high school. No soap. Towel the size of a hand towel. We aimed the shower nozzles at the floor and walked through the U-shapes area in a line, towels above our heads. It was basically a short rinse without soap and without messing up our hair and makeup.

Yes, exactly. I graduated in 1996 and we did this in middle school only. Tiny orange towel, everyone in a line naked running through the showers. So dumb.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Never showered at school. Not enough time.

This. And I was a 70's kid!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was just talking about this the other day! It was totally a thing back in the late 80s - you were required to shower, and they had a checklist that they checked off every time as you came out of the shower. You got in trouble if you skipped the shower. And they gave you a towel that was the size of a hand towel to cover yourself up. Ugh it was awful, and in retrospect, wtf??

I graduated in ‘89 and never showered after PE. No one did and we were not told we had to. We had 5 minutes to get to the next class, so there was no time anyway.

[Anonymous]

No showers when I was in HS in the 90s.

[Anonymous]

Showers were a thing before and after swimming for gym. Helped a little with keeping pool water good, and rinsed chlorine out of hair and suits. But you did it in your swimsuit.

I walked through the middle school locker room after a school event and was not very surprised to see the shower area had been turned into a storage area.

In high school you would take a quick shower after practice in August/September to cool off, but even then it was super quick. Everyone showered again when they got home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Graduated 1992 and never ever ever showered in a school gym. Ever

I wouldn’t let my kids either

Wouldn't make them shower? Or wouldn't allow them to shower?

I wouldn't make my daughters shower at school if they didn't want to. But they choose to do so on their own, which I certainly don't have a problem with. It's their decision either way.

[Anonymous]

I didn't shower but I also feel like I somehow managed to always have PE the last period of the day. My memory may be faulty since I graduated in 1990 though.

DS just started middle school and has PE first so we will see how that goes.

[Anonymous]

No one showered after PE at my MS or HS (graduated in '87), ever

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was just talking about this the other day! It was totally a thing back in the late 80s - you were required to shower, and they had a checklist that they checked off every time as you came out of the shower. You got in trouble if you skipped the shower. And they gave you a towel that was the size of a hand towel to cover yourself up. Ugh it was awful, and in retrospect, wtf??

I graduated in 1990 and we were not required to shower, except when we had the swimming unit. But that was basically just a rinse off before we went in the pool, and we already had bathing suits on. A checklist for showering is extremely creepy!

[Anonymous]

90s grad and the showers were for one thing: Scoliosis tests. Worse than showering!

[Anonymous]

Graduated in 1993, suburban Detroit. Both my middle and high schools had pools, and we were required to shower after swimming. It was a big group shower room. We all kept our suits on, so no big deal. I remember we all used to sing songs from shampoo ads together, as loudly as we could, while we washed our hair with our Pert Plus.

“Sometimes you need a little Finesse, sometimes you need a lot.”

“Like you just stepped out of a salon… Salon Selectives!”

It was kind of fun. We did have wet hair for the next several hours. I had a high school Spanish teacher who always greeted me cheerfully — “Estas mojado!” (you’re wet!)

Good times.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe I'm just very out of the loop, but I was surprised to hear from my teenage daughter today that showering after middle/high school gym class just isn't a thing anymore, at least in the U.S. Does anyone know when this stopped, because growing up in the late 80's/early 90's it was absolutely still a thing we all had to go through.

And why exactly would you want today’s kids to “have to go through” it? Or is this post some weird kink?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My dad was born in 1930, when they had gym they had to swim in the nude. It was a thing. Google it.

My neighbor said the same thing and he was born in the 50s. Rural southern public school.

[Anonymous]

Graduated in 01. We didn’t shower in MS but in high school, some did. I don’t recall showering after every gym class but we did have a mandatory swimming until so we did then

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Graduated in 01. We didn’t shower in MS but in high school, some did. I don’t recall showering after every gym class but we did have a mandatory swimming until so we did then

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