School P E

Kids are so pampered nowadays . I went to a private all boys boarding school and we did it totally nude and had to shower after . The showers were just a big room with shower heads on the wall every few feet .
Our kids today are being raised wrapped in cotton wool and turned into papmpered spoilt brats .

I would kick seven shades of shite out of any teacher who strip searched my nephew or nieces.

I don't think that is the point the school is making, and I don't think Metro understands it.

Nowt to do with "posh". That's just Metro being snobbish.

That little quote alone shows a school rightly wanting to protect an expensive new floor from being damaged by children cavorting about on it in inappropriate footwear. Ordinary foot traffic fine, games and PE, not fine. After all, many householders now ask their own family and visitors to leave outdoor shoes and stiletto-heels by the front door. And you always take your shoes off when entering a mosque even as a visitor: school, home or mosque the aim is to respect and protect the property for its users.

I don't understand why that news-site gets its bloomers in a twist about it: must be short of genuine news. It's not some major act of "institutional" cruelty to children here; but one school's internal decision to protect its taxpayer-funded assets for the benefit of its real users: the staff and children.

As for PE footwear or lack thereof, your schools may have gone bare-footed for indoor PE but mine didn't. In fact until I started seeing all these reminiscences on SW I had no idea anyone did any PE in bare feet - though I cannot recall if we wore shoes or not in my Infants' School for the Music & Movement schools-broadcasts in the early-1960s.

I''d never even heard of the practice!

Otherwise I and my class-mates always wore plimsolls for all PE and Games, indoors and out; except of course studded boots for football on the outdoor pitches.

Nope we didn’t. We had to wear soft-sole shoes on the gym floor back then. And due to the male athletes getting preference we usually didn’t even do anything till the last 5 minutes of class. I think the gym teachers were in the teachers lounge taking a 45 minute break after roll call, it was right across from the auditorium-gym. Happened in high school PE too.

Parents can be a right pain in the a**e at times 😟

Why would children get cut feet on a new gym floor designed with gymnasts and dancers in mind? Only an issue if people start wearing shoes on it 🥺

I don't blame the kids for being pampered . . but some of their parents really need to grow up a bit.

We did PE in plimsolls, but we removed them for gymnastics, dance and drama classes. If we forgot our plimsolls we had to go barefoot.

We were always bare foot when doing PR indoors.

We wore shoes and a school uniform in my PE class

We were never allowed to be barefoot during PE. I went to Catholic elementary and high school. They were really strict when it came to the PE dress code.

Yes, most of my PE classes were done in bare feet. In secondary school you could wear non-marking shoes in the gym for team games, but many of us chose not to.

How can a floor be "posh"? 🤔

Depended on what the PE was, if it was like gymnastics and calisthenics then that was done barefoot on gym mats but for games like Basketball or Volleyball we always wore sneakers.

No, we all wore plimsolls.

The showers were always fun.

The girls could go barefoot but the guys had to wear tennis shoes (was not fare)

We did both ways ✨

Doing PE barefoot and seeing everyone else’s soles and toes gave me a foot fetish

Not in my schools

Not when I was teaching either.
Plimsolls!

PE was always with sneakers.