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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We didn’t do it gym class, but we did do it during baketball practice, which was already exclusively male, and after school hours.
We definitely did shirts versus skins when I was in high school not that long… err, a few short decades ago
Shirts vs skins was a thing when I was in school, it was kind of traumatic
You are not old enough to understand, me thinks.
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.
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.
Why a whole jersey and not just a coloured band?
it’s a lot easier to put on and take off a jersey than a band, and a lot more visible. At least that’s my guess.
Also, we used the jerseys for actual games, so no need for extra equipment.
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”.
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.
Yup, and jerseys need to be washed, and nobody has time for that.
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.
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.
I never played it in school, but definitely at like summer camps that were less organized…
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.
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.
This is the world I grew up in.
Exactly. Not at high school gym class.
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.
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.