My generation were Brave compare to now

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Aunt Bea said:
I remember.

Also, the showers.

I didn’t realize that they had been discontinued shortly after I graduated in 1972.
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I never took a shower after gym class, nor did any other girls I knew. A midday reapplication of deodorant was sufficient.

Likewise after I rode my bike or ran around for an hour or two, my mother didn't tell me to take a bath or shower. Washed my face and hands and was good to go for the rest of the day.
 
PeppermintPatty said:
I remember the rope climbing back in grade school . What I don’t remember was having a choice. Luckily I wasn’t afraid of climbing and welcomed the challenge.
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In kindergarten we had a wooden pole that went to the ceiling and that was okay but the rope in the gymnasium was a no-go for me until I got more adventurous. By then I was out of school and turned to skateboarding, motorcycling, rock climbing and spelunking.
 
StarSong said:
I never took a shower after gym class, nor did any other girls I knew. A midday reapplication of deodorant was sufficient.

Likewise after I rode my bike or ran around for an hour or two, my mother didn't tell me to take a bath or shower. Washed my face and hands and was good to go for the rest of the day.
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we weren't permitted to NOT shower after gym.... we all had to... whether we liked it or not....
 
StarSong said:
Absolute truth. I remember climbing that rope all too well. Fortunately, I wasn't afraid of heights.
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actually strange thing is, I wasn't afraid of heights then either.. and I climbed the rope... and walked the beam... I was a tomboy and climbed everything in sight out of school anyway.... what I hated and what made me feel clustrophobic were the Climbing bars against the wall..

We'd climb up the front and then be told to climb down the back , well there was only a tiny space between the bars and the wall, and I always felt I'd get stuck in there.

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In retropect I have no idea why we were even expected to do it...

In my Daughters years the bars.. moved away from the wall .... but not in my school years
 
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ChiroDoc said:
Heh, heh.I didn't read the article, but there are no cons to having mandatory gym class in grade schools.
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I totally agree. The reason they give for why they do not, is the class does not really stay active for more
than a few minutes out of 45. Most of the time is spent waiting stationary.
They don't prepare the class time to keep kids active during Gym/PE.

Children need to burn off energy, sitting all day is not good for keeping the whole body with everything it needs.
The article concerned me because I have a young gr-daughter in 2nd grade. I am so glad my son and DIL sees
that need and has her taking Karate, Cheer, Dance to help her body throughout the year.
Luckily they can afford it. Many can't do that and more children are sitting for longer hours than ever before.
 
I went to 10 different schools during my K12 school 13 years as my father in military/space industries, moved us frequently. The first 9 years were in Northern California where I had always had PE classes and outside school we kids had constant physical activity, especially in natural areas as creeks. I must have climbed a zillion oak trees.

1 year in San Diego as a HS freshman. There at the peak of the surfing craze, we lived in a hilly canyon area, constantly riding 10-speed bikes and early era self made skate boards.

2 years in Ohio in HS, and the last in HS back in California. Ohio was like living in a different world and very cold during winters. I hated PE in Ohio, the majority of those class periods amounted to getting into gym clothes, jogging around an athletic field, showering, and then redressing. Just as in @IrishEyes link, the actual amount of time anyone actually did anything else most days was less than 10 minutes.

A reason I got so much real physical activity during school in California had much to do with its moderated Pacific climate, especially playing team sports. All those years, PE showering occurred.
 
David777 said:
I went to 10 different schools during my K12 school 13 years as my father in military/space industries, moved us frequently. The first 9 years were in Northern California where I had always had PE classes and outside school we kids had constant physical activity, especially in natural areas as creeks. I must have climbed a zillion oak trees. 1 year in San Diego as a HS freshman,There at the peak of the surfing craze, we lived in a hilly canyon area, constantly riding 10-speed bikes and early era self made skate boards.

2 years in Ohio in HS, and the last in HS back in California. Ohio was like living in a different world and very cold during winters. I hated PE in Ohio, the majority of those class periods amounted to getting into gym clothes, jogging around an athletic field, showering, and then redressing. Just as in @IrishEyes link, the actual amount of time anyone actually did anything else most days was less than 10 minutes.

A reason I got so much real physical activity during school in California had much to do with its moderated Pacific climate, especially playing team sports. All those years, PE showering occurred.
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Blimey...10 schools... I thought I;d been to a lot, 6 schools by the time I was 11 years old... but 10 schools...wow !
 
My class had 4 double periods of PE per week... that was 4x45 minutes total of 3 hours...that was the least that was allowed. One double period would be netball , Hockey or track & field depending on the time of year... and the other double would be general gym work...gymnastics of all types..

How it worked in our school was the higher intelligent classes got the least PE... and the lower classes got the most... so the lower classes had as much as 10 periods of PE per week...
 
I addition to rope climb, I was able to learn all the track and field, and gymnastic events. Also tennis.
 

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