| swimcatsmom: Yes, that's exactly what I mean. The boys did not wear swimsuits for their PE swim classes. I have spoken to people who went to hs in the chicago suburbs from the same time (mid-1960's) and they had the same experience. Even my H who is from Berkeley CA from the same time period had naked swim classes. These were all large, public high schools, too.
Nowadays kids in our area never take showers after PE. When you take swimming there are artful ways of changing your clothes without showing anything (or you can go into a bathroom stall), so kids never really need to be naked in front of anybody. I still have nightmares about being naked in high school. |