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This article was published June 26th and is merely referencing the said article from 96.
We had a perverted fat gym teacher who insisted on handing us the towels back when I was in middle school claiming they were getting stolen or something. It was kind of creepy... as is the whole notion of forced public showering in a public school.
We had a perverted fat gym teacher who insisted on handing us the towels back when I was in middle school claiming they were getting stolen or something. It was kind of creepy... as is the whole notion of forced public showering in a public school.
Hey we might have gone to the same middle school. I remember we had a large creepy looking gym coach that would watch us take showers. I think it was his way of making sure there wasn't any horse play going on where some one could slip and get hurt.... Then again What a PERVERT !
As for showering if I didn't get sweaty why take one? Today don't the boys just cover up the stink by drowning themselves in AX body spray?? LOL
Incidentally, I don't think that this non-shower trend is anything that was new in either the year the article was written, or today.
I attended high school in the '60s, and almost none of the guys showered after PE class simply because...there was no hot water, the floor of the shower area was slimy and moldy-looking, and many of the tiles had sharp, broken edges.
The few who did shower frequently stopped that practice because they developed foot fungus as a result of the appalling conditions in the shower area.
I think the whole notion of public school is itself creepy. In what other situation is a parent a remote bystander in a child's life, desperately hoping that whatever the child experiences every day is not "too bad"? Meanwhile the child is hustled around on a rigidly predetermined schedule not of the parent's devising, one that is saturated with a mixture of engineered "activities" and unsettling inactivity, in a social context that is one part panopticon and one part zoo... the whole of which is passed off as "education," while the dissemination of serious knowledge is avoided so as not to undermine the authority of the institution?
I never once took a shower at school. I was embarrassed enough just changing into gym clothes in front of other girls. I don't think any of the girls took showers outside of extracurricular sports.
This article was published June 26th and is merely referencing the said article from 96.
We had a perverted fat gym teacher who insisted on handing us the towels back when I was in middle school claiming they were getting stolen or something. It was kind of creepy... as is the whole notion of forced public showering in a public school.
Same thing here . . . Our gym teacher stood at the communal shower with a clip board to supposedly make sure everyone took a shower. It was horrific. Truly the low point of every week. It was the point in a younger persons life when things were changing, some faster than others. Humiliating. Then, it seemed like you could never dry off, because you still sweat despite the shower, which only exacerbated that.
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