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Did you have to shower after PE?

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Quanon · 17/05/2024 15:05

Question due to a conversation about when this became unacceptable. Was it ever OK? Really? I didn’t ever experience it but DH did, with a teacher enforcing that everyone showered properly. It’s surely not expected now in secondary schools for safeguarding reasons? Our kids certainly don’t.

Were you required to shower after PE at school?

If you could give me an idea of when (decade) and yes or no, it will help our discussion. I wonder if it was more boys than girl?

For us
90s, female, no
90s, male, yes after rugby (teacher watching)

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DilemmaDelilah · 18/05/2024 18:21

Boarding school, 1970s, we didn't even have showers!
I think it is very different now.....

BobnLen · 18/05/2024 18:23

Yes, female, early 70s, we had to strip off and queue to go in the showers.

muddyford · 18/05/2024 19:19

Mid-70s to early 80s, yes, communal (all girls though) in middle school and individual cubicles at upper school.

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SarahlLu · 12/09/2025 13:38

Late to this discussion, however from 1997 through to 2003 we were made to have showers after PE and I hated it.
however today, that isn’t something schools do anymore, thank god.

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