I taught school a few years back. I had to substitute teach for P.E. teachers a few times. There are now showers with separate stalls about chest high. The kids don't use them. No one would be the first, for fear of being the only one, and they want to get out and about. I remember locker room problems, pranks and intimidation in my high school years. I remember everyone took a shower mandatory, in a large multi shower-head room. A boy, or coach would hand out the towels as we exited to our lockers.
The result is a bunch of kids acting in uncomfortable inhibited manners changing clothes. It is so weird and unhealthy to me. They place both sexes in the same class with separate locker rooms. I remember my first junior high locker room experiences after returning from Europe where there was no P.E. in my school. I felt uncomfortable at first. The guys who hadn't developed pubes were uncomfortable, but no one actually said anything, understood, and didn't really care, as these kids hid in their shame.
We were taught that nudity was okay among men. Even better, we could have been taught that nudity was okay among both sexes, just as easily.
Kids don't want to sit in desks, do homework, or even go to school, generally. The new and uncomfortable have to be gone through to learn. Why is there a perceived trauma in the locker room and swimming pool? It is considered some form of rape to require kids to healthily shower after a workout. It is sick that the system imposes body shame issues on kids.
I do remember the coach using shame on the boys. "You're acting like a bunch of Girls. Act like men." I must note in his defense that he said "girls." He didn't say women.
Jbee
