We definitely did shirts versus skins when I was in high school not that long… err, a few short decades ago
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halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 4 days ago
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.
Omgboom@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Shirts vs skins was a thing when I was in school, it was kind of traumatic
Raiderkev@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I never played it in school, but definitely at like summer camps that were less organized…
Mojave@lemmy.world 4 days ago
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 4 days ago
This is the world I grew up in.
Syd@lemm.ee 4 days ago
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.
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
There were showers in the locker rooms when I was in school, but the ordinary gym classes never used them. (Maybe the sports teams did?) I think I would rather have dropped out than showered naked in school.
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Exactly. Not at high school gym class.
Maalus@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Meh, we played shirt vs skins in summer when it was getting hot outside. They had sashes but people just wanted to be a bit cooler.
theangryseal@lemmy.world 4 days ago
We played shirts vs skins in the middle and high school gym. If we had sashes I never seen them.
One of many reasons I didn’t dress out and got suspended every 3 days for 3 days until the principal figured out it was happening.
God I hated my gym teacher.
funkyfarmington@lemmy.world 2 days ago
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.
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 2 days ago
No idea why everyone is defending a 4chan green text with anecdotes from 30+ years ago.
It’s a green text, it’s fake. That’s just a general rule. But even if we pretend it’s real, it’s 4chan, it’s being posted by a kid, probably 14-17, but no current school is going to go anywhere near that type of shit, they’d be sued immediately in this society.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
I did this. I went to school mid 80s to early 2000s.
11111one11111@lemmy.world 4 days ago
What?! Hahaha how many times did you get held back? 85-2005 is a really long time to be in school jkjk obviously /s
Manalith@midwest.social 4 days 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.
TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 3 days ago
We were still playing shirts vs skins basketball in middle school in the mid 90s.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 4 days ago
You are not old enough to understand, me thinks.
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 4 days ago
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 4 days ago
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 4 days 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.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Yup, and jerseys need to be washed, and nobody has time for that.
echodot@feddit.uk 4 days 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 4 days ago
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 4 days ago
Okay, what the hell is horse?
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
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 days ago
Why a whole jersey and not just a coloured band?
JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 days ago
I know the concept but we never did this in school, but I never took PE more than was required so it’s possible I just missed it or didn’t see. It could’ve been a thing in highschool.