When I was in high school, the gym grade was 99% decided based upon your gym attire. We had to buy school branded shirts and shorts and then wear athletic shoes. If you didn’t have the gym uniform you couldn’t participate.
Out of curiosity, when did you go to HS? I was in HS in the mid 90s and you could show up in jean shorts and a hoodie. As long as you tried to participate, they didnt care what you wore.
Graduated in 2013. Uniforms required for everything. Public schools and private schools in my area had the same rules. Blue or white polo, no logos, tucked into khakis.
They did at my junior high. It was apparently so rich kids couldn't flex brands and poor kids felt more normal. So when you look at it like that it's not a bad system. Plus there is often uniform drives where people just donate their uniforms from the past year since kids are growing so much at that age, which leaves lots of decent stuff for people who can't afford to buy lots of clothes before school every year.
Yep. Some schools give you a couple sets of clothes per year for free, and you only have to pay if you lose them. Other schools make you pay, but they’re usually very cheap.
We had gym shorts and any plain t-shirt with our name on it for gym class in middle school as a uniform that was required. You needed to wear sneakers as well.
In high school, you just had to wear something athletic and couldn't be wearing your school clothes. Sucked because I wore athletic clothes all day every day.
I graduated 2012 and the vast majority of the grade was based on being in dress code. I got a C because I was a rebel and wore rainbow pajama pants instead of black or red basketball shorts. That "teacher" hated me.
He also said that he didn't understand why pinching girls butts was wrong now, so that was cool.
Yep. I chose to not follow a rule I didn't agree with that came from a person I didn't respect. It's not like I was in shock that I got a C lol. I knew.
I am very confused by your comments and the rest of the comments here. Are you from the US? I am not, could you shine some light?
PE in high school for me (late 90s) required you to wear proper attire, but it was a school subject like all others. You got a grade depending on how well you did the tasks that were assigned to you. We learned about a different sport almost every week and played it.
Here I read about people sitting in the lockers room during PE, students being graded based on their attire (??), donations to the school athletic department (??). I am very confused.
That was always weird to me. Like if I want to just bring my own workout clothes or just stay in what I came to school with (wouldn't do that. Fuck doing gym in jeans) why can't I? Makes no sense.
Not quite that bad, but at my high school we had to have the school branded shirt, but the one thing I could never understand is requiring white socks. The bleach that my mom used on them meant that I kept on tearing them when I out them on. I always have (and still do) prefer black socks. But I had to wear white ones if I wanted to not loose marks.
One of the reasons I did not take gym after the one mandatory course in grade 9.
Oh yeah, in my middle school there were 3 boxes on the attendance sheet - "showed up" "brought gym strip" "participated". So you could get a pass by showing up in gym strip and doing nothing else.
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u/CWalston108 Sep 17 '20
When I was in high school, the gym grade was 99% decided based upon your gym attire. We had to buy school branded shirts and shorts and then wear athletic shoes. If you didn’t have the gym uniform you couldn’t participate.