Kids don't shower in high school anymore?

[Crookfur]

We only used the showers after swimming. During normal PE you barely got enough time to get changed or knock the blaze (which had been turned to wet cement by the rain) off your trainers.

The only time anyone raised an eye brow over this was when we weren't given enough time to shower after playing rugby in the mud, hail, mud, snow and more mud. The complaints weren't to do with the smell but the fact that we all almost died of hypothermia ( or so it felt).

Heck I can't remember anyone even thinking to bring a towel unless we doing swimming...

[Ifreann]

Radical idea: Hold classes underwater.

Intriguing.

No more smell problem, and kids will all learn sign language, swimming, and how to use scuba gear.

[Czechanada]

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?

Are you systematically smelling the female population of your school?

[Ifreann]

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?

Are you systematically smelling the female population of your school?

Isn't that what everyone did in high school?

[The Alexanderians]

I just had a conversation with my nephew. He isn't showering after P.E. anymore. He did for the first few weeks of school, but he was teased because he was literally the only kid that showered.

What's up with that? Kids don't shower anymore? They just spend the rest of the school day reeking? Do they really think deodorant alone will cover up their stink?

Did you shower in school? If not, why not? I did. Hell, we used to tease the few kids that didn't.

My school didn't have showers, despite the constant demands from the students for some.

[Soldati Senza Confini]

Are you systematically smelling the female population of your school?

Isn't that what everyone did in high school?

I did more than smelling them

[Czechanada]

Isn't that what everyone did in high school?

I did more than smelling them

So you were grooming the female population of your school?

[Soldati Senza Confini]

I did more than smelling them

So you were grooming the female population of your school?

Yes, that's exactly what I did.

[Hurdegaryp]

So you were grooming the female population of your school?

Yes, that's exactly what I did.

It's a lot of work, but they are always so grateful once you're done with them.

[Lunatic Goofballs]

Intriguing.

No more smell problem, and kids will all learn sign language, swimming, and how to use scuba gear.

This is either genius or madness. Possibly both.

[Hurdegaryp]

No more smell problem, and kids will all learn sign language, swimming, and how to use scuba gear.

This is either genius or madness. Possibly both.

Therefore you have no choice but to approve and enthusiastically support this idea.

[November ARL]

Genius as scuba is cool and kids dont have to shower after and wont stink problem solved!

[Czechanada]

Besides, kids have a novel method of hygiene these days: spraying copious amounts of Axe on themselves.

[Hurdegaryp]

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.

Everybody knows that partners are the best and cheapest form of warmth, hence why loneliness is commonly associated with being cold.

[Ifreann]

Besides, kids have a novel method of hygiene these days: spraying copious amounts of Axe on themselves.

Nothing novel about it.

[Czechanada]

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.

Everybody knows that partners are the best and cheapest form of warmth, hence why loneliness is commonly associated with being cold.

That's true. Nothing will keep you warmer than someone breathing down your neck all the time.

[November ARL]

Yeah trying to hide the stench rather than get rid of it. I mean come on kids shower you smelly lot.

[Dakini]

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.

Everybody knows that partners are the best and cheapest form of warmth, hence why loneliness is commonly associated with being cold.

Yes, partners are definitely great space heaters. Too bad one can't snuggle easily while on the computer.

[Hurdegaryp]

Besides, kids have a novel method of hygiene these days: spraying copious amounts of Axe on themselves.

Nothing novel about it.

They've been doing that since the previous century, so it's more of a tradition by now.

[Dakini]

Nothing novel about it.

They've been doing that since the previous century, so it's more of a tradition by now.

I suspect that the tradition of covering yourself in perfumes to cover terrible body odor is at least a few centuries old.

[Hurdegaryp]

They've been doing that since the previous century, so it's more of a tradition by now.

I suspect that the tradition of covering yourself in perfumes to cover terrible body odor is at least a few centuries old.

True, but the spray can is a relatively recent innovation.

[Lunatic Goofballs]

This is either genius or madness. Possibly both.

Therefore you have no choice but to approve and enthusiastically support this idea.

Oh, it has been approved and is now supported enthusiastically. *nod*

[Gim]

Yeah trying to hide the stench rather than get rid of it. I mean come on kids shower you smelly lot.

Over time, stench gets worse, anyway.

[The Alma Mater]

They've been doing that since the previous century, so it's more of a tradition by now.

I suspect that the tradition of covering yourself in perfumes to cover terrible body odor is at least a few centuries old.

In the olden days, it even gave you a fancy title like "messiah" or "christ"

[The Saxon Isles]

I graduated from a Catholic high school in 2002. Probably about half the guys showered after P.E. and half didn't, and the ones who did were mostly athletes who were already used to it. I was on the wrestling team so I was used to it, no big deal.

I think the reason it's less common now is a combination of people being more aware and sensitive toward body image issues, and schools discouraging it by not giving enough time for it or just outright not allowing it. There's too much liability involved. Mandatory showering? It might have worked decades ago but now it would be lawsuit-palooza to mandate that children have to get naked in front of anyone, including other children, and that's probably how it should be.