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[–] [email protected] 224 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Ah yes, because if it from home they have to report it, while if it is happening at school their zero tolerance policy means they can ignore it.

[–] [email protected] 85 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Zero tolerance for snitches punches kid

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago

I mean, that’s not too far from the truth

[–] [email protected] 111 points 5 days ago (8 children)

What the fuck kind of school gym class doesn't have any alternative to kids taking their shirts off in class?

Even the poorest public schools have crappy colored jerseys that go over the regular gym clothes.

In the grand scheme of shit that never happened, this is near the top.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You are not old enough to understand, me thinks.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (4 children)

I'd hope millennial would be old enough to understand shirts vs skins.

Age has nothing to do with how unlikely it is that a school gym class would have students take off their shirts to differentiate teams in a game.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Age does. It was very, very common ~35 years ago, especially in urban or country schools where money wasn't spent on "such frivolous things".

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 days ago

I can confirm it occurred in my experience about 20 years ago. We had a set of color vests, but those were for the girls.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

I was in high school in the early 2000s and even we did it. Apparently the school I was at was a sports academy as well, so presumably that meant they had some money to work with.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

Yup, and jerseys need to be washed, and nobody has time for that.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

When I was in school it was shirts vs skins. Two separate schools in two separate states. I’m 39.

At Christian academy we played horse though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (6 children)

Okay, what the hell is horse?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (5 children)

As a millennial, it wasn't something we did in PE, but we did it occasionally on team sports for scrimmages (esp. basketball). We had jerseys, but the coach didn't want to keep doing laundry.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Literally every school in the 70s and 80s. EVERY SCHOOL. That shit really did happen, because I got a F in PE over this exact issue.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 days ago

We definitely did shirts versus skins when I was in high school not that long... err, a few short decades ago

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago

Shirts vs skins was a thing when I was in school, it was kind of traumatic

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago (4 children)

I never played it in school, but definitely at like summer camps that were less organized..

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Highschool in hicktown, our salty freak of a gym teacher would let girls stay inside and walk laps.

Boys go outside to play whatever sport, or sometimes go to the tiny wrestling room for dodgeball, and it'd be shirt v skins. Usually he'd pick the fat kids to be skins cuz they needed more "motivation".

Weird to me that people think shirts v skins is fake when there's way weirder shit schools do to kids. We had our biology teacher take the class to his barn down the road and help shear his alpacas for extra credit. Like, school staff can do whatever the hell they want, and kids will just say "okay" if they don't know any better.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

This is the world I grew up in.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I did this. I went to school mid 80s to early 2000s.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

What?! Hahaha how many times did you get held back? 85-2005 is a really long time to be in school jkjk obviously /s

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

We were still playing shirts vs skins basketball in middle school in the mid 90s.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

We didn't do it gym class, but we did do it during baketball practice, which was already exclusively male, and after school hours.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Dumb question: how does shirts v skins work for girls? Did the just never pick girls for skins or did they make girls compete in a bra? Cause that sounds kinda shady...

[–] [email protected] 56 points 5 days ago (4 children)

When I was a kid (80s-90s), we just wore a coloured pinny.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

The word "pinny" pulled forth visceral memories of my middle school. Wow, impressive.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

By the late 90's early 00's my school started doing the same for boys.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Agreed, I'd never heard of going shirtless lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

I'd completely forgotten about them.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I'm a dude, but it was the same for the girls at my school: skins wore their shirts, and shirts wore a second communal sleeveless track shirt over their shirt. So we called it skins and shirts, but really it was shirts and double-shirts

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

My middle school has uniforms, but HS had cheap, shitty thow-over red and blue vests for gym class.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

My school just had yellow jersey type things but the holes were bigger to identify a team

[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 days ago (2 children)

From my experience in 90s gym class, the girls are taken to a separate auxiliary gym to do aerobics while the boys do team vs team games.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Ok yeah that makes sense.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm sorry, wtf is "shirts vs skins"?

[–] [email protected] 63 points 5 days ago (2 children)

One team has their shirts on, the other doesn't. Instead of color coded jeresys.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Wtf are jere-...

Yeah, ok, thanks.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It is just a way to differentiate who's on what team. Usually basketball, but it can be done with other sports.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I think he was making fun of the spelling of jersey

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago

Good old jeresys. Never knew anyone like him.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I only ever played "shirts vs skins" with friends, outside of school. In school we just had light and dark shirts, and had assigned days when wore what.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

My school just had different colored vests that we put on, like mesh neon colored safety vests

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