Showers after PE?

[Uberly]

Does this still happen?

My DS starts secondary school in Sept () and haven't thought to ask. Got the uniform and equipment list but it doesn't seem too detailed, but doesn't include a towel.

Thanks

[nicp123]

Yes, at DS's school for boys they are advised to wear swimming trunks under their football/rugby kit on games day and bring a towel if they want to shower after the matches but nobody used the showers so far.

[IguanaTail]

isn't it a bit unpleasant to leave a class of teenagers sweaty and muddy and unshowered for the remainder of the school day?

Yessssssss!!!! Some of the boys just put their uniform on top of their PE kit because they can't be bothered to change. Then they spray themselves with some Lynx and go to their next lesson. Very often they stink.

Schools have to offer showers but kids don't use them.

[LucyLocketLostHerPocket]

Oops sorry I didn't spot that either

[Sparklingbrook]

meon79 bumped it in July, waited 4 months then bumped again.

[AuntieStella]

Bugger - sometimes I notice, today I didn't (no zombie, presumably because of the two posts from July) and I haven't had enough yet

[LucyLocketLostHerPocket]

EllenJane - same at my school in the early 80's. I hated that walk through freezing showers being watched by the teacher.
We rarely got that dirty since most sport was played on the quads rather than fields. My DC can't believe that we were made to do sports in a tshirt and navy blue knickers that you wore over your normal ones. Skirts for netball only. All year round and in full view of anyone, no wonder I hated sport. DD gets to wear tracksuits, sports bras and warm stuff in winter. Looking back it must have been a perv paradise.

[Sparklingbrook]

This thread is from 2012.

[AuntieStella]

Parents never really see the inside of changing rooms, but DC say there are functioning showers. No-one however ever seems to use them.

A micro-towel in the smallest/lightest option if you do want to squash one in.

(I've just asked a passing DC. The showers are a row of cubicles, not communal, and they are used if you need to remove mud. But if you do a different sport, then nobody ever seems to use them.

[meon79]

I can only say for the school my friend whos a pe teacher but no showers after pe are Not allowed and the teachers will discourage there use teachers feel given the possibility of any allegation its just not something they would encourage there was talks about having 2 members of staff eg 2 male teachers for boys and 2 for girls but the sheer cost was unaffordable the teachers sent letters home parents and children werent happy but the teachers said given the high level of seriousness any allegation could bring it was decided children can wait till they go home. Part of the reason historically for showers in some school showers policys was to spot signs of abuse but i think school showers belong in the past

[meon79]

We had to shower in my senior school the 1990s its was nice too get the sweat and mud off we wouldn't of just put our uniform back over dirty or sweaty bodies thats just not nice we all showered properly with shampoo, one time a supply teacher refused us acess too the showers lots of parents went up the school too complain that there child\children had been muddy after pe and uniform was made filthy and the teacher had failed inits loco parentis duty of care . I wonder would parents today get annoyed at a teachers for failing in this today ? I assume schools still have loco parentis
Do teachers today not mind teaching classes after a pe lesson body spray and sweat doesnt seem fair on the children\teens or the teacher
What are parents and teachers views on this ?

[lljkk]

I come from a different culture & we just were not so uptight about someone else seeing us naked. We always showered, we were given enough time to shower, if you didn't shower you got ridiculed, & I don't remember anyone saying they found public showers humiliating. I always find the British attitude about one's own nudity quite bewildering & bizarre (okay, I'll be honest, I laugh loads at you lot about it).

So if I had my way I'd change the culture not to care so much. Now where did I put that magic wand?

[minesawine]

My DS is in Year 7 and although they have lovely brand new showers, none of his class have ever used them, even though they have to go on to other lessons.

It is not because they dont want to but they just dont have the time as their PE lesson ends about 5 minutes before their next lesson starts.

The school has lots of very smelly children!!!

[Dancergirl]

Well what's the answer then? Smelly teenagers or ritual humiliation?

[lljkk]

I am a terrible hygiene slattern & I think it's appalling too, HanSolo. :(

[Madmog]

My daughter has just started Y7. Boys only are asked to take a towel in, but haven't showered yet. My friend said her son walked through the door the other day removing everything at lower level (which she said she didn't want to see lol) and proclaimed he needed a bath as he legs were covered in dry mud and he'd been sat like that all afternoon.

[Startailoforangeandgold]

I think we were sent to shower in Y7 (1979)
We were very bad at bothering and gave the PE teachers the run around.

They gave up on us very quickly.

After that we just did acrobatics on the curtain rails. Gives me the shivers to think what would have happened if we'd fallen head first 7ft on to the tiles.

The PE teachers never came out their changing room.

[LilQueenie]

Im not surprised they dont shower. Our pe teacher would walk into the girls changing rooms - attached to the walk in shower room. He was Male

[HanSolo]

Goodness- but isn't it unhygienic not to shower after games?
It must reek in these schools!

[ravenAK]

Doesn't hapen anymore.

They come into my English lessons reeking (& late) & start unselfconsciously dousing themselves in Stynx instead.

I stand at the front wheezing & protesting: 'Year 10! I do not want to know what your armpits taste like! Spray in the changing rooms!'

[MirandaWest]

And you never knew where to look either as if you appeared to be looking anywhere bear someone else's body you would be labelled a pervert

[MirandaWest]

We had to throw our towels over the top of a wall and then stand in the showers until the sadist oe teacher would let us out.

[shrimponastick]

I used to have to do same as upthread, leave towel at one end and walk through whilst or teacher watched.

Bloody humiliating.

[shrimponastick]

DS Y10 has never had a shower at school after games

I doubt they have time.

He stinks..!!

[EllenJaneisstillnotmyname]

I'm old. This was in the 70s. We had to leave our towel at one end of the showers, walk through naked and back around the outside to get the towel, then get our name ticked off by the horrible PE teachers, who stood at the end of the showers, watching. If you had your period you were allowed to wash at a sink but had to shout out 'P' when your name was called. Ritual humiliation.

Ds1 and 2 have never had a shower at school, lucky them.