Kids don't shower in high school anymore?

[Czechanada]

Japanese people don't usually smell nearly as bad. Unless your kids all have sticky ear wax* and bad BO, in which case that sucks and the problem is probably more the near lack of deodorant in this country than the kids swimming.


*There's a relationship between bad body odor and wet earwax, but in Japan a lot of people have dry earwax and don't smell quite as rank in the summer... they might all smell better with a bit of deodorant, but a lot of people don't wear it here and the Tokyo rush hour trains don't smell nearly as bad as you'd think in the summer.

edit to add: I mean, maybe the weather is better in Nagano than Tokyo, but if I even have to sprint a few hundred metres to catch my train, I'm really sweaty and disgusting. I wear deodorant though so I'm not especially stinky about it, but I import my deodorant from Canada because paying 1000 yen for some shitty deodorant of questionable quality with minimal or non-existent selection is not something I'd like to do.

It's drier (for a given value of dry. Everyone always says t me how dry Nagano is and I just have to look at them as if they are nuts, but then again, I'm from a desert).

That said, yes, while normally Japanese don't have the BO problem... teens do... God do they at least during summers.

And I am in total agreement with you about importing deodorant. The Japanese stuff... simply doesn't work.

Is it true that Nagano nights can get quite chilly?

[Katganistan]

Wait. You don't have P.E. in high school?

We do, but you aren't forced to take it.

After the 7th grade, I refused to ever take that class again.

In NYC school system, high school students MUST take 8 terms of P.E. We've had kids with a predominantly "gym" program because they failed 2-3 classes of it by not showing, then had to take gym classes to graduate.

[Gim]

We do, but you aren't forced to take it.

After the 7th grade, I refused to ever take that class again.

In NYC school system, high school students MUST take 8 terms of P.E. We've had kids with a predominantly "gym" program because they failed 2-3 classes of it by not showing, then had to take gym classes to graduate.

Same here. P.E. is mandatory from eighth to tenth grade.

[Katganistan]

Anyone who's been a gym locker room can testify that people stink. A lot. 'Specially Kids.

I'm sure girls' change rooms are different. Are they not?

Nope. Still sweaty.

[Gim]

I'm sure girls' change rooms are different. Are they not?

Nope. Still sweaty.

Good thing I don't get to see it.

[Ifreann]

Nope. Still sweaty.

Good thing I don't get to see it.

It's generally the smell that's the problem.

[Gim]

Good thing I don't get to see it.

It's generally the smell that's the problem.

I mean the sweat on their clothes or what not.

[Lunatic Goofballs]

You should invest in a bottle of febreeze and squirt the axe offenders when they come into your room....

Can't. I can't even keep a bottle of Windex to wash down desks, because someone might be allergic to it.

Which is why I don't get why kids who spray a ton of deodorant/cologne IN class are not censured in any way. THem's chems too.

How about a fire hose? Water should be allowed.

[Kazarogkai]

In NYC school system, high school students MUST take 8 terms of P.E. We've had kids with a predominantly "gym" program because they failed 2-3 classes of it by not showing, then had to take gym classes to graduate.

Same here. P.E. is mandatory from eighth to tenth grade.

Mandatory from about 3rd to 8th grade, in high school you are required to take a minimum of 2 classes of it but you get to more or less choose when you do. If you do extra PE classes it counts for extracurricular credits at that point.

[Gim]

Same here. P.E. is mandatory from eighth to tenth grade.

Mandatory from about 3rd to 8th grade, in high school you are required to take a minimum of 2 classes of it but you get to more or less choose when you do. If you do extra PE classes it counts for extracurricular credits at that point.

Our school only has art courses as extracurricular credits. P.E. is only extracurricular from eleventh to twelfth.

[Kazarogkai]

Mandatory from about 3rd to 8th grade, in high school you are required to take a minimum of 2 classes of it but you get to more or less choose when you do. If you do extra PE classes it counts for extracurricular credits at that point.

Our school only has art courses as extracurricular credits. P.E. is only extracurricular from eleventh to twelfth.

We pretty much get to choose are classes, but we are required to pass certain core classes in order to graduate. Specifically 2 years of math, 4 years of english,2 years of pe, 1 year of art, etc.

[Gim]

Our school only has art courses as extracurricular credits. P.E. is only extracurricular from eleventh to twelfth.

We pretty much get to choose are classes, but we are required to pass certain core classes in order to graduate. Specifically 2 years of math, 4 years of english,2 years of pe, 1 year of art, etc.

Sciences are in our requirements for graduation, unfortunately.
P.E. is required, but taking a shower after each class is not.

[NERVUN]

It's drier (for a given value of dry. Everyone always says t me how dry Nagano is and I just have to look at them as if they are nuts, but then again, I'm from a desert).

That said, yes, while normally Japanese don't have the BO problem... teens do... God do they at least during summers.

And I am in total agreement with you about importing deodorant. The Japanese stuff... simply doesn't work.

Is it true that Nagano nights can get quite chilly?

Yup. Even worse, Japanese houses are built for summer... creative camping really.

[NERVUN]

Can't. I can't even keep a bottle of Windex to wash down desks, because someone might be allergic to it.

Which is why I don't get why kids who spray a ton of deodorant/cologne IN class are not censured in any way. THem's chems too.

How about a fire hose? Water should be allowed.

I have thought about it, LG, God as my witness, I have so thought about it.

[Davinhia]

i had gym at the end of the day
like, last period
twice a week max

so it wasn't bad
i certainly am NOT active during anything gym or athlete or sport related
so i'm good on all aspects

[Lunatic Goofballs]

How about a fire hose? Water should be allowed.

I have thought about it, LG, God as my witness, I have so thought about it.

*Nervun aims at the offender and his offending odor,* "You smell like a goat placenta" *FWOOOOOSH!!!

[Ifreann]

Can't. I can't even keep a bottle of Windex to wash down desks, because someone might be allergic to it.

Which is why I don't get why kids who spray a ton of deodorant/cologne IN class are not censured in any way. THem's chems too.

How about a fire hose? Water should be allowed.

Radical idea: Hold classes underwater.

[May Mays]

Half the girls smell worse than my friends and I do.

And they can't compete with the smelliest of our grade...

You tell me?

[Dakini]

Japanese people don't usually smell nearly as bad. Unless your kids all have sticky ear wax* and bad BO, in which case that sucks and the problem is probably more the near lack of deodorant in this country than the kids swimming.


*There's a relationship between bad body odor and wet earwax, but in Japan a lot of people have dry earwax and don't smell quite as rank in the summer... they might all smell better with a bit of deodorant, but a lot of people don't wear it here and the Tokyo rush hour trains don't smell nearly as bad as you'd think in the summer.

edit to add: I mean, maybe the weather is better in Nagano than Tokyo, but if I even have to sprint a few hundred metres to catch my train, I'm really sweaty and disgusting. I wear deodorant though so I'm not especially stinky about it, but I import my deodorant from Canada because paying 1000 yen for some shitty deodorant of questionable quality with minimal or non-existent selection is not something I'd like to do.

It's drier (for a given value of dry. Everyone always says t me how dry Nagano is and I just have to look at them as if they are nuts, but then again, I'm from a desert).

That said, yes, while normally Japanese don't have the BO problem... teens do... God do they at least during summers.

And I am in total agreement with you about importing deodorant. The Japanese stuff... simply doesn't work.

If the humidity is less than 80% most of the time, it's drier than Tokyo. And I guess I never spend time around teenagers, just adults and occasionally toddlers.

And yeah, fuck Japanese deodorant. I feel bad for anyone who grows up here, is smelly and isn't aware that there's a much better alternative out there.

[Dakini]

Is it true that Nagano nights can get quite chilly?

Yup. Even worse, Japanese houses are built for summer... creative camping really.

Rumour has it that in Hokkaido, they've heard of insulation and central heating.

[NERVUN]

Yup. Even worse, Japanese houses are built for summer... creative camping really.

Rumour has it that in Hokkaido, they've heard of insulation and central heating.

Having visited, I can say that the are. I just wish the rest of Japan would catch on.

Ah well, MY house was designed with the notion of staying warm. ~_^

[Lunatic Goofballs]

How about a fire hose? Water should be allowed.

Radical idea: Hold classes underwater.

Intriguing.

[Havenburgh]

People didnt shower in my school because they viewed it as embarassing to be naked in front of classmates. So instead we used whole Axe cans and old spice. Gym is mandatory 1st to 12th in my school

[Dakini]

Rumour has it that in Hokkaido, they've heard of insulation and central heating.

Having visited, I can say that the are. I just wish the rest of Japan would catch on.

Ah well, MY house was designed with the notion of staying warm. ~_^

Yeah, my apartment definitely was not. If I wasn't so lazy, I'd set up the kotatsu or get out the space heater; instead I just have fuzzy socks, blankets and my partner.

[AiliailiA]

I have no idea what kids do in high school now. But I think all the school can reasonably expect is that they turn up to school having showered some time in the last week, and if being smelly after PE is a problem then schedule PE late in the day.