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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