• halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
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    28 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
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      28 days ago

      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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      26 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
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        26 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.

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        28 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.

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          28 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”.

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            28 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.

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        28 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.

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    28 days ago

    Dumb question: how does shirts v skins work for girls? Did the just never pick girls for skins or did they make girls compete in a bra? Cause that sounds kinda shady…

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      28 days ago

      I’m a dude, but it was the same for the girls at my school: skins wore their shirts, and shirts wore a second communal sleeveless track shirt over their shirt. So we called it skins and shirts, but really it was shirts and double-shirts

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      28 days ago

      From my experience in 90s gym class, the girls are taken to a separate auxiliary gym to do aerobics while the boys do team vs team games.

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    28 days ago

    Ah yes, because if it from home they have to report it, while if it is happening at school their zero tolerance policy means they can ignore it.