Our MS didn’t require kids to change for PE but kids were required to dress in PE appropriate attire (sneakers, certain colors, top and bottom you can move in, etc ). They were advised to bring deodorant. Uniforms were sold if families wanted them in whole or part. I’m fine with this. If you want to change great. If you want to arrive at school for PE and stay that way all day, great.

Purchased the sweatshirt. Sent kid with deodorant, wet wipes or small wash cloth.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid is not allowed to wear crocs for PE, don’t know where you got that idea.

Sounds like a private school parent poster talking about Crocs and being a strange district.

Private schools need to recruit and this is a good place to do it since many people here are very privileged and have crazy expectations.

Crazy expectations?! Students are expected to dress out for PE? You’re the problem.

OP-just wow.

No wonder people are quitting.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid is not allowed to wear crocs for PE, don’t know where you got that idea.

Sounds like a private school parent poster talking about Crocs and being a strange district.

Private schools need to recruit and this is a good place to do it since many people here are very privileged and have crazy expectations.

Can't imagine pulling my kid out of public school over PE attire but I guess anything is possible.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid is not allowed to wear crocs for PE, don’t know where you got that idea.

Sounds like a private school parent poster talking about Crocs and being a strange district.

Private schools need to recruit and this is a good place to do it since many people here are very privileged and have crazy expectations.

Anonymous wrote:I have twins who are 10th grade now, but they attended different middle schools and now, different high schools. The experience has been the same for both of them. In the fall of 2019, they were in 6th grade and they were each required to change for PE. School was virtual the last quarter and almost all of the next dear. When kids returned to school en masse, MCPS was extremely covid cautious, and no longer required kids to be changing clothes in close proximity. Also, everybody was still wearing the super comfy clothing they got used to during the pandemic, so most of the clothing did support physical activity. Changing for gym has not come back because because it stopped being the norm and, frankly, post pandemic, it’s been harder to make students adhere to any unpopular rules.

This must have been school-dependent, because my now-junior didn't have to change (pre-Covid) in 6th, or that first 3/4 of 7th. They were required to be dressed appropriately for the day's activity, but that didn't necessarily have to be different from their school clothes. Jeans were fine, and shoes just had be closed-toe and stay on your feet during the activity.

They were assigned a gym locker, so she kept a pair of old sneakers in there in case she wore boots or sandals, and never wore dresses. Most days she just wore her Converse to school and kept them on. I'm not sure what the penalties were for wearing crocs or Ugg-type shoes, but she said there were kids who wore them to PE on occasion.

That said, this was a very mixed-income MS, so there may have been concerns about some kids not having the resources to do a full change of clothes every day.

Anonymous wrote:No one is defending MCPS. But we hell don't need someone posting here talking about interviews which is a private school thing, private school OP. Stay in the private school or Frederick County schools forum.

Yup. OP is clearly a troll.

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Anonymous wrote:I have twins who are 10th grade now, but they attended different middle schools and now, different high schools. The experience has been the same for both of them. In the fall of 2019, they were in 6th grade and they were each required to change for PE. School was virtual the last quarter and almost all of the next dear. When kids returned to school en masse, MCPS was extremely covid cautious, and no longer required kids to be changing clothes in close proximity. Also, everybody was still wearing the super comfy clothing they got used to during the pandemic, so most of the clothing did support physical activity. Changing for gym has not come back because because it stopped being the norm and, frankly, post pandemic, it’s been harder to make students adhere to any unpopular rules.

I think it changed for Covid. My kids were in HS during Covid and had to change when they took PE in 9th. Pretty much the only way you could fail PE was by not changing. My guess it will come back eventually.

Yep, agree. My kid was in 7th when Covid struck and policy prior was to change, after was not to congregate in the locker room, not to congregate in the unairconditioned gym, and to take attendance 5 x per gym class for fear that the kids would abscond otherwise