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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 245 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ah yes, because if it from home they have to report it, while if it is happening at school their zero tolerance policy means they can ignore it.

[–] BugleFingers@lemmy.world 95 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Zero tolerance for snitches punches kid

Obligatory /J

[–] 1995ToyotaCorolla@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago

I mean, that’s not too far from the truth

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 120 points 1 month ago (8 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.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 72 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You are not old enough to understand, me thinks.

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I'd hope millennial would be old enough to understand shirts vs skins.

Age has nothing to do with how unlikely it is that a school gym class would have students take off their shirts to differentiate teams in a game.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 56 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Age does. It was very, very common ~35 years ago, especially in urban or country schools where money wasn't spent on "such frivolous things".

[–] MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago

I can confirm it occurred in my experience about 20 years ago. We had a set of color vests, but those were for the girls.

Yup, and jerseys need to be washed, and nobody has time for that.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 8 points 1 month ago

I was in high school in the early 2000s and even we did it. Apparently the school I was at was a sports academy as well, so presumably that meant they had some money to work with.

[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

When I was in school it was shirts vs skins. Two separate schools in two separate states. I’m 39.

At Christian academy we played horse though.

[–] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Okay, what the hell is horse?

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As a millennial, it wasn't something we did in PE, but we did it occasionally on team sports for scrimmages (esp. basketball). We had jerseys, but the coach didn't want to keep doing laundry.

[–] MBM@lemmings.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why a whole jersey and not just a coloured band?

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

it's a lot easier to put on and take off a jersey than a band, and a lot more visible. At least that's my guess.

Also, we used the jerseys for actual games, so no need for extra equipment.

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[–] Omgboom@lemmy.zip 40 points 1 month ago

We definitely did shirts versus skins when I was in high school not that long... err, a few short decades ago

Shirts vs skins was a thing when I was in school, it was kind of traumatic

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (4 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.

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[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I did this. I went to school mid 80s to early 2000s.

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[–] funkyfarmington@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Literally every school in the 70s and 80s. EVERY SCHOOL. That shit really did happen, because I got a F in PE over this exact issue.

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[–] Manalith@midwest.social 6 points 1 month ago

We didn't do it gym class, but we did do it during baketball practice, which was already exclusively male, and after school hours.

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[–] hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world 43 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Dumb question: how does shirts v skins work for girls? Did the just never pick girls for skins or did they make girls compete in a bra? Cause that sounds kinda shady...

[–] Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 60 points 1 month ago (5 children)

When I was a kid (80s-90s), we just wore a coloured pinny.

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

By the late 90's early 00's my school started doing the same for boys.

[–] edgesmash@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

The word "pinny" pulled forth visceral memories of my middle school. Wow, impressive.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 1 month ago

I'd completely forgotten about them.

[–] potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fish 4 points 1 month ago

Agreed, I'd never heard of going shirtless lol

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[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 41 points 1 month ago (2 children)

From my experience in 90s gym class, the girls are taken to a separate auxiliary gym to do aerobics while the boys do team vs team games.

[–] hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Ok yeah that makes sense.

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[–] 0ops@lemm.ee 41 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm a dude, but it was the same for the girls at my school: skins wore their shirts, and shirts wore a second communal sleeveless track shirt over their shirt. So we called it skins and shirts, but really it was shirts and double-shirts

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

My middle school has uniforms, but HS had cheap, shitty thow-over red and blue vests for gym class.

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[–] abfarid@startrek.website 37 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm sorry, wtf is "shirts vs skins"?

[–] Letstakealook@lemm.ee 64 points 1 month ago (2 children)

One team has their shirts on, the other doesn't. Instead of color coded jeresys.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wtf are jere-...

Yeah, ok, thanks.

[–] Letstakealook@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It is just a way to differentiate who's on what team. Usually basketball, but it can be done with other sports.

[–] Amanduh@lemm.ee 24 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think he was making fun of the spelling of jersey

[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

Good old jeresys. Never knew anyone like him.

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

If it makes you feel any better I'm a native English speaker and I googled the word because I didn't know the spelling either...

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I only ever played "shirts vs skins" with friends, outside of school. In school we just had light and dark shirts, and had assigned days when wore what.

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

My school just had different colored vests that we put on, like mesh neon colored safety vests

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