Anonymous
10/19/2020 15:18
Subject: Showering after middle/high school gym class
Ha, this brought back a vivid memory of the dirty laundry smell of the gym locker room - not pleasant. I graduated high school in 2005 and nobody took showers after middle or high school gym class - though there were showers in the locker room.
Anonymous
10/19/2020 15:17
Subject: Re:Showering after middle/high school gym class
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??
It absolutley was awful. I was an early bloomer in middle school and the other girls all called me beaver. I'll let you figure out why.
I'm glad it's not a thing anymore, especially since my son is uncircumcised. I remember hearing about all the teasing that happened because of that.
Anonymous
10/19/2020 15:11
Subject: Showering after middle/high school gym class
For those that did- did you have to bring your own towel? Did you wash your hair? This is crazy to me.
Anonymous
10/19/2020 15:08
Subject: Re:Showering after middle/high school gym class
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??
Anonymous
10/19/2020 15:07
Subject: Re:Showering after middle/high school gym class
Anonymous wrote:'91 hs grad here. We never showered after gym.
Same. It would have destroyed my teased hair!
Anonymous
10/19/2020 15:06
Subject: Re:Showering after middle/high school gym class
'91 hs grad here. We never showered after gym.
Anonymous
10/19/2020 15:05
Subject: Showering after middle/high school gym class
I graduated from high school in 1996. Most of the girls didn’t...not enough time, as a PP said.
Anonymous
10/19/2020 15:04
Subject: Re:Showering after middle/high school gym class
Graduated from a high school in moco in the late 90s and there was no showering in middle school or high school.
Anonymous
10/19/2020 15:03
Subject: Re:Showering after middle/high school gym class
Graduated high school in '02, never did, had lots of friends at other schools, never heard of anyone using the school showers.
Anonymous
10/19/2020 15:01
Subject: Showering after middle/high school gym class
It's definitely not a thing anymore. My kids have never taken a shower after PE (senior and sophmore). PE is not required after sophomore year.
We did have to take them or at least pretend to when I was growing up. Graduated HS in 1990.
We did have to take them or at least pretend to when I was growing up. Graduated HS in 1990.
Anonymous
10/19/2020 14:27
Subject: Showering after middle/high school gym class
Never showered at school. Not enough time.
Anonymous
10/19/2020 14:26
Subject: Showering after middle/high school gym class
I graduated in the '90s and never did.
Didn't have time for it (as it was we had only 5 minutes to change out of our gym clothes and re-dress into street clothes).
Didn't sweat enough anyway.
Where did you grow up OP? Public or private school?
Didn't have time for it (as it was we had only 5 minutes to change out of our gym clothes and re-dress into street clothes).
Didn't sweat enough anyway.
Where did you grow up OP? Public or private school?
Anonymous
10/19/2020 14:25
Subject: Re:Showering after middle/high school gym class
I never did in the 80s either but they tried to make us and I refused and got in trouble. There are not many worse things at that age than baring your changing body.
Anonymous
10/19/2020 14:23
Subject: Showering after middle/high school gym class
I graduated in 2006 and we never used the showers. I never got sweaty enough to need to.
Anonymous
10/19/2020 14:16
Subject: Showering after middle/high school gym class
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.