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[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 120 points 1 month ago (37 children)

What the fuck kind of school gym class doesn't have any alternative to kids taking their shirts off in class?

Even the poorest public schools have crappy colored jerseys that go over the regular gym clothes.

In the grand scheme of shit that never happened, this is near the top.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I never played it in school, but definitely at like summer camps that were less organized..

[–] Mojave@lemmy.world 37 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Highschool in hicktown, our salty freak of a gym teacher would let girls stay inside and walk laps.

Boys go outside to play whatever sport, or sometimes go to the tiny wrestling room for dodgeball, and it'd be shirt v skins. Usually he'd pick the fat kids to be skins cuz they needed more "motivation".

Weird to me that people think shirts v skins is fake when there's way weirder shit schools do to kids. We had our biology teacher take the class to his barn down the road and help shear his alpacas for extra credit. Like, school staff can do whatever the hell they want, and kids will just say "okay" if they don't know any better.

[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

This is the world I grew up in.

[–] Syd@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I transferred from a middle school in a different county and showering was required at their junior high. Compulsory fully nude showers seems kinda weird looking back Not that long ago either, pretty sure it was well after that was a common practice.

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

There were showers in the locker rooms when I was in school, but the ordinary gym classes never used them. (Maybe the sports teams did?) I think I would rather have dropped out than showered naked in school.

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world -5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Exactly. Not at high school gym class.

[–] Maalus@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Meh, we played shirt vs skins in summer when it was getting hot outside. They had sashes but people just wanted to be a bit cooler.

[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

We played shirts vs skins in the middle and high school gym. If we had sashes I never seen them.

One of many reasons I didn’t dress out and got suspended every 3 days for 3 days until the principal figured out it was happening.

God I hated my gym teacher.

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