Junior High (7th and 8th grade) shower poll.

[PrincessFiona]

In Junior high, did you have to get completely undressed and take showers daily?

[diggitydot]

Showers were optional, of which NO ONE took that option.

[L.Jane]

I never had to take showers at school. I remember there were showers and if you wanted to you could, but I dont think I ever knew anyone that took that option. Then again, I was a slug and didn't really break a sweat in gym class except the twice a year we had to run the mile, and even then I didn't put in much effort.

[Chrisada]

Hell no. No one ever took showers!

Never.

[v-girl]

Please note that I never ever worked hard enough in PE to break a sweat in middle school. I actually got an F for one grading period in 7th grade.

[peggyfromwastate]

We had to wrap ourselves in the itchy stiff towels around our bra and panties and walk thru the showers as they were running. That was the rule. Our feet got wet maybe.

I marked that I would refuse to go to school bc if I actually had to soap up (like the boys did haha) naked I wouldn't have done it.

Dd the teen didn't even have the option to shower. At her middle school they didn't let the kids shower bc of time. They only had 8 mom to get changed from gym and back to their next class. No shower possible.

[scrub-jay]

They weren't even offered at my jr high.

I picked the first option because at the time it wasn't too traumatic but looking back it was pretty horrible. A very open communal changing room and communal shower room and we had to shower after PE. What I hated at the time was the swimming pool. It was an outside, unheated pool and we had to do swimming once per week in spring. This was in England. It's cold in spring. The teachers pushed us in if we didn't get in and I remember the shame of having my period and watching because that was the only way to get out of swimming. This was in "secondary school" - 5th to 10th grade equivalent.

[corn poffi]

Sometimes they told us we had to go in, but could be wearing underwear and have the towel wrapped around us. That was like once a year though. Otherwise we never did!

[scarlett09]

They were offered as an option, but I never saw anyone use them. Now in 10th grade, we had to use them during the 2 weeks we had swimming. We had an indoor pool and it smelled terrible, so you wanted to rinse off the chlorine smell (especially if you had swimming 2nd period like I did, only 3 hours after you showered at home). But we just rinsed off in our bathing suits and then changed, so I wouldn't really call it a "shower".

[ladymoreta]

Hmm, we didn't have gym after 5th grade, and we didn't get sweaty enough to need one then. I guess if you played a sport, there might have been showers available, but I never heard about them, and I didn't do anything athletic...

[Momo]

Showers were optional & private...I went to a parochial school.

[SoonerTexan]

Only when we had swimming, which was not often. We only has ten min or so to get ready

[Vanquisher]

Showers were optional, and NO ONE, I mean NO ONE ever used them, ever. The time to do your hair alone? I think there were boxes stacked in them anyway. The boys did, I think. They appeared to come out of the locker room with wet hair anyway. Girls would wet paper towels if really sweaty, and pile on extra deodorant.