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.
This is so different from what I understand horse to be it’s crazy. To play horse you would shoot a ball from a certain spot and if you made it, the other person would have to shoot from the same spot or they get a letter. If you miss the other player gets to pick a spot. And so on until someone gets HORSE and loses. Also played with skateboard tricks and called SKATE.
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.
No, for PE, we generally didn’t bother with any kind of jerseys. I was talking about after-school sports, which was the only time we’d ever done shirts vs skins.
I know the concept but we never did this in school, but I never took PE more than was required so it’s possible I just missed it or didn’t see. It could’ve been a thing in highschool.
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.
I transferred from a middle school in a different county and showering was required at their junior high. Compulsory fully nude showers seems kinda weird looking back Not that long ago either, pretty sure it was well after that was a common practice.
There were showers in the locker rooms when I was in school, but the ordinary gym classes never used them. (Maybe the sports teams did?) I think I would rather have dropped out than showered naked in school.
No idea why everyone is defending a 4chan green text with anecdotes from 30+ years ago.
It’s a green text, it’s fake. That’s just a general rule. But even if we pretend it’s real, it’s 4chan, it’s being posted by a kid, probably 14-17, but no current school is going to go anywhere near that type of shit, they’d be sued immediately in this society.
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.
You are not old enough to understand, me thinks.
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.
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”.
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.
Yup, and jerseys need to be washed, and nobody has time for that.
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.
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.
Okay, what the hell is horse?
You shoot, you miss, you get nothing. You shoot, you score, you get an H, followed by an O, then R, S, and E. Whoever gets to HORSE first wins.
That is the opposite of how HORSE is played.
Yes it is. I played Christian academy horse. :p
This is so different from what I understand horse to be it’s crazy. To play horse you would shoot a ball from a certain spot and if you made it, the other person would have to shoot from the same spot or they get a letter. If you miss the other player gets to pick a spot. And so on until someone gets HORSE and loses. Also played with skateboard tricks and called SKATE.
Can’t have too much fun at Pentecostal academy. :p
Riiight! We used to play donkey, for some reason.
Great explanation, too
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.
Why a whole jersey and not just a coloured band?
it’s a lot easier to put on and take off a jersey than a band, and a lot more visible. At least that’s my guess.
Also, we used the jerseys for actual games, so no need for extra equipment.
It’s more visible, sure, but there’s nothing easier to put on than a band:
And you had actual games? For mandatory PE at school?
No, for PE, we generally didn’t bother with any kind of jerseys. I was talking about after-school sports, which was the only time we’d ever done shirts vs skins.
How did I even miss you saying
in your original comment
I know the concept but we never did this in school, but I never took PE more than was required so it’s possible I just missed it or didn’t see. It could’ve been a thing in highschool.
We definitely did shirts versus skins when I was in high school not that long… err, a few short decades ago
Shirts vs skins was a thing when I was in school, it was kind of traumatic
I never played it in school, but definitely at like summer camps that were less organized…
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.
This is the world I grew up in.
I transferred from a middle school in a different county and showering was required at their junior high. Compulsory fully nude showers seems kinda weird looking back Not that long ago either, pretty sure it was well after that was a common practice.
There were showers in the locker rooms when I was in school, but the ordinary gym classes never used them. (Maybe the sports teams did?) I think I would rather have dropped out than showered naked in school.
Exactly. Not at high school gym class.
Meh, we played shirt vs skins in summer when it was getting hot outside. They had sashes but people just wanted to be a bit cooler.
We played shirts vs skins in the middle and high school gym. If we had sashes I never seen them.
One of many reasons I didn’t dress out and got suspended every 3 days for 3 days until the principal figured out it was happening.
God I hated my gym teacher.
I did this. I went to school mid 80s to early 2000s.
What?! Hahaha how many times did you get held back? 85-2005 is a really long time to be in school jkjk obviously /s
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.
No idea why everyone is defending a 4chan green text with anecdotes from 30+ years ago.
It’s a green text, it’s fake. That’s just a general rule. But even if we pretend it’s real, it’s 4chan, it’s being posted by a kid, probably 14-17, but no current school is going to go anywhere near that type of shit, they’d be sued immediately in this society.
We didn’t do it gym class, but we did do it during baketball practice, which was already exclusively male, and after school hours.
We were still playing shirts vs skins basketball in middle school in the mid 90s.