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34. Yup, elementary school through high school

Sat Jan 5, 2013, 03:59 PM

Jan 2013

we had to take all our clothes off and shower after PE. I can only speak for the guys from personal experience, but a girl in 7th grade told me they did the same (which then drove me crazy thinking about it). This was in the 60s and at several schools around the country (my dad was in the Air Force and frequently transferred).

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Did they make you shower totally nude after PE? Do they make your kids? [View all] pstokely Jan 2013 OP

Yes Kaleva Jan 2013 #1

Yes Broken_Hero Jan 2013 #2

No, only after football practice on rare occasion. Chan790 Jan 2013 #3

Nobody made us do it. Everyone just did. Why wouldn't you? Coyotl Jan 2013 #4

No one else showered when it didn't affect their grade pstokely Jan 2013 #5

Some people are a little more modest than that Tobin S. Jan 2013 #10

That may have been a kid like me. hunter Jan 2013 #45

Yes, especially after teachers complained that Lydia Leftcoast Jan 2013 #6

No one made us and students rarely did Incitatus Jan 2013 #7

back in the last century yes fortyfeetunder Jan 2013 #8

I was never a PE teacher except as a sub and I'm not that old but I think it was military. hunter Jan 2013 #47

Mike Judge must have had one of those ex-military gym teachers pstokely Jan 2013 #56

Yes. You got to where you didn't even think about it anymore. alphafemale Jan 2013 #9

This message was self-deleted by its author seaglass Jan 2013 #11

Only a couple of times at the start of PE in junior high school. Denninmi Jan 2013 #12

We didn't have to shower at all. Maybe it was a girl thing. Honeycombe8 Jan 2013 #13

I came from pipi_k Jan 2013 #18

Maybe "disgust" was too strong a word. Honeycombe8 Jan 2013 #51

Yes, high school. silentwarrior Jan 2013 #14

My experience as well, same time frame, too. Sheldon Cooper Jan 2013 #44

same here. n/t orleans Jan 2013 #53

Yep. Jr Hi and Hi in the early 70's for me. Gidney N Cloyd Jan 2013 #15

I can't say pipi_k Jan 2013 #16

We had some weird silentwarrior Jan 2013 #17

Ewwww pipi_k Jan 2013 #19

Yes it does sound Ewwww silentwarrior Jan 2013 #24

I had great teachers in the 70s. LWolf Jan 2013 #30

Female, and yes Digit Jan 2013 #20

we had the open plan showers with a drain in the middle loli phabay Jan 2013 #21

That's how ours was too. femmocrat Jan 2013 #38

k MiddleFingerMom Jan 2013 #22

Me? Yes. Kids? No. Iggo Jan 2013 #23

Showering with your clothes on seems counterproductive Bucky Jan 2013 #25

No bigwillq Jan 2013 #26

Showering with your clothes on? Still Blue in PDX Jan 2013 #27

Yes, in the late 60's. We had to check out with the gym teacher and tell her if we had "sponged" or likesmountains 52 Jan 2013 #28

Yes. nt LWolf Jan 2013 #29

No. Jamaal510 Jan 2013 #31

Some of us used to streak around the campus naked after PE. hunter Jan 2013 #32

we had to walk once around the pool naked before showering Enrique Jan 2013 #33

Yup, elementary school through high school aint_no_life_nowhere Jan 2013 #34

Yes, it was the norm at the time. kwassa Jan 2013 #35

Some call it prudishness... kurtzapril4 Jan 2013 #43

Being a child of the '60s ... kwassa Jan 2013 #50

Yes In_The_Wind Jan 2013 #36

Yes, from 7th through 12th grade Mr.Bill Jan 2013 #37

Only needed a year of PE, and three years of Math and Science in Missouri ten years ago pstokely Jan 2013 #46

Well, since my grandchildren are in their 20s Mr.Bill Jan 2013 #48

Well... LP2K12 Jan 2013 #39

Nope. sakabatou Jan 2013 #40

Not only didn't they "make us" shower ... surrealAmerican Jan 2013 #41

self delete. Matariki Jan 2013 #60

Yes. And the water was cold. Quantess Jan 2013 #42

Nobody made us shower. Luciferous Jan 2013 #49

In high school, if you were in band revolution breeze Jan 2013 #52

Both Jr and Sr High LTG Jan 2013 #54

Axe body spray is today's high school shower pstokely Jan 2013 #55

Yea and our gym teacher Mr. Sandusky stood at doc03 Jan 2013 #57

That would have killed me alarimer Jan 2013 #58

You showered in your clothes? Did you walk around w/ wet pants the rest of the day? Matariki Jan 2013 #59

We had to stand in line naked to have the gym teacher check off our names Matariki Jan 2013 #61

You had a Mr. Sandusky as your gym teacher too. You know I doc03 Jan 2013 #62

A Ms. Sandusky. Two of them actually. Matariki Jan 2013 #66

We never were forced to shower after PE, but I did dr.strangelove Jan 2013 #63

No. There were no showers available when I was in junior high (now known. RebelOne Jan 2013 #64

Yes - I graduated in 90 nadine_mn Jan 2013 #65

yes I always showered and swam naked in junior and high schools, also the Y dmoore Jul 2014 #67